ACE
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ACE (Atom Centric Elevation) is a standard for publishing contents in an accessible, syndicated, and structural fashion, by means of enumerating of items, being an essential part of the proper eutrophy of publishing platforms; The standard is comprised by these XML technologies.
Sitemap
Sitemap is utilized to map urlset.xml files.
Location: Root directory as /sitemap.xml.
Required: Yes.
Role: Map.
Urlset
Urlset is utilized to navigate between pages.
Location: Any directory of which content is desired to be navigable.
Required: No.
Role: Navigation.
Outline Processor Markup Language
OPML Collection is utilized to index and distribute subscriptions.
Location: Root directory as /collection.opml
Required: No.
Role: Index.
Description of a Project
DOAP is utilized to deliver information about the software used.
Location: Root directory as /information.doap
Required: No.
Role: Identification.
XSL Transformation
XSLT stylesheet is a recommended addition to forge an interface for Internet Browsers by transforming XML data to HTML pages, including visualizing data, such as mathematics and statistics.
Because ACE is utilized by software clients that are not Internet Browsers, the XSLT stylesheets are namely intended for people who still use Internet Browsers.
Location: Custom. The recommended directory is /xslt/.
Required: No.
Role: Accessibility.
Post script
It is important to note, that publications that conform with the ACE specifications can be published over almost any protocol, including, yet not limited to, BitTorrent, Gemini, Gopher, FTP, HTTP, IPFS, SSH, and XMPP.
The next version of 'HTML' is expected to be reformulated as an XML application, so that it will be based upon XML rather than upon SGML.
As of December 1998, 'Voyager' was the W3C code name for HTML reformulated as an application of XML.
—Robin Cover (March 02, 2001).