Glossary of Acronyms

The technology industry is full of acronyms, and the field of XML with its many acronym-named standards seems to have even more than average. Because of this phenomenon within XML and our own tendency to use acronyms from time to time rather than their often lengthy expansions, we provide a brief glossary of acronyms and their expanded names.

ADML Architecture Description Markup Language

API Application Programming Interface

CASE (As in CASE tools) Computer Aided Software Engineering

CM2 Common Metadata Model

CMM Capabilities Maturity Model

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

DBMS Database Management System

DM Data Management

DOM Document Object Model

DTD Document Type Definition

EAI Enterprise Application Integration

EDI

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