Everything about XML

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: XMLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Explainable Machine Learning (XML) to predict external wind pressure of a low-rise building in urban-like settingsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: XML in a nutshellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A uniform proteomics MS/MS analysis platform utilizing open XML file formatsCited 605 times
5. Go sideways: Document type definitionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Standard Generalized Markup LanguageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A uniform proteomics MS/MS analysis platform utilizing open XML file formats

  Andrew Keller, Jimmy Eng, Ning Zhang · 2005 · Molecular Systems Biology · 605 citations

• phyloXML: XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics

  Mira V Han, Christian M Zmasek · 2009 · BMC Bioinformatics · 491 citations

• The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF

  S. Decker, S. Melnik, F. van Harmelen · 2000 · IEEE Internet Computing · 406 citations

• SAWSDL: Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema

  Jacek Kopecký, Tomas Vitvar, Carine Bournez · 2007 · IEEE Internet Computing · 384 citations

• A fine-grained access control system for XML documents

  Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefano Paraboschi · 2002 · ACM Transactions on Information and System Security · 331 citations

• Generation of Projector Augmented-Wave atomic data: A 71 element validated table in the XML format

  François Jollet, Marc Torrent, Natalie Holzwarth · 2014 · Computer Physics Communications · 312 citations

• The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) Data Model and XML file: open tools for informatics and quantitative analysis in biological imaging

  Ilya G Goldberg, Chris Allan, Jean-Marie Burel · 2005 · Genome Biology · 280 citations

• Path sharing and predicate evaluation for high-performance XML filtering

  Yanlei Diao, Mehmet Altinel, Michael J. Franklin · 2003 · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 245 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Explainable Machine Learning (XML) to predict external wind pressure of a low-rise building in urban-like settings

  D.P.P. Meddage, I.U. Ekanayake, A.U. Weerasuriya · 2022 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics · 94 citations

• Explainable machine learning (XML) framework for seismic assessment of structures using Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)

  Masoum M. Gharagoz, Mohamed Noureldin, Jinkoo Kim · 2025 · Engineering Structures · 57 citations

• XML-GBM lung: An explainable machine learning-based application for the diagnosis of lung cancer

  Sarreha Tasmin Rikta, Khandaker Mohammad Mohi Uddin, Nitish Biswas · 2023 · Journal of Pathology Informatics · 41 citations

• XML-CIMT: Explainable Machine Learning (XML) Model for Predicting Chemical-Induced Mitochondrial Toxicity

  Keerthana Jaganathan, Mobeen Ur Rehman, Hilal Tayara · 2022 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 19 citations

• Shear capacity of FRP-RC beams: XML modeling and reliability evaluation

  Abouzar Jafari, Amir Ali Shahmansouri, Arsam Taslimi · 2025 · Structures · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• XML in a nutshellElliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means · 2001
• Definitive XML SchemaPriscilla Walmsley · 2001
• Beginning XMLDavid Hunter, Kurt Cagle · 2001
• Mobile computing principlesReza B'Far · 2000
• DocBookNorman Walsh · 1999
• XML for dummiesLucinda Dykes · 2005
• Learning XMLErik T. Ray · 2001
• Perl & XMLErik Ray, Jason McIntosh · 2002

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• XML schema An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that…
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• XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText…
• Document type declaration A document type declaration, or DOCTYPE, is an instruction that associates a particular XML or SGML document (for example, a web page) with a document…
• Formal Public Identifier A Formal Public Identifier (FPI) is a short piece of text with a particular structure that may be used to uniquely identify a product, specification or…
• W3C Markup Validation Service The Markup Validation Service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows Internet users to check pre-HTML5 HTML and XHTML documents…