Here's a bunch of links on CDF and other XML-related standards which may be
helpful:
Channel Definition Format (CDF)
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1997/Mar97/Cdfrpr.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/standards/cdf.htm
http://www.datachannel.com/ChannelWorld/CDF/CDFIndex.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1997/May97/pshpnlpr.htm
http://www.datachannel.com/ChannelWorld/MicorNet/MicroNetIndex.htm
XML (Extensible Markup Language):
http://www.microsoft.com/standards/xml/
http://www.textuality.com/sgml-erb/WD-xml.html
http://www.textuality.com/xml/
http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html
Meta Content Framework (MCF):
http://hotsauce.apple.com/
http://www.webweek.com/1997/06/23/software/19970623-metadata.html
http://mcf.research.apple.com/hs/mcf.html
http://www.textuality.com/mcf/MCF-tutorial.html
Open Financial Exchange (OFE)
http://www.microsoft.com/finserv/ofxdnld.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/finserv/news.htm (companies supporting OFE)
Mathematical Markup Language (MML)
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-math-970710
Chemical Markup Language (CML)
http://www.venus.co.uk/omf/cml/doc/tutorial/xml.html
Have fun browsing!
Jonathan
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