Seeking a survey of community-accepted specific applications of XML

Question

Wikipedia list -- 'business and industry'
List by Doug Barry, a consultant
These are about all I can find for lists of generally-accepted applications for XML. This mystifies me. I feel sure there are lots more in use or under development, and I'd think everyone would be eager to see them promoted and cross-pollinated.

What got me going on this was a review of the SGF file format for recording board games. As I expected must be the case, there's an XML replacement underway. I know some mind mapping programs use XML for storing files. Flow-charting (and similar diagramming) is another area I'd expect to be handled.

Do you know of a clearing-house resource with more complete information about XML in its various specific usages?

Answer 1

XML is considered more or less a universal way to store information of all kinds, especially if you are sharing data between two different computer systems over the internet. So there is no generally-accepted cross-section of programs for which XML is (not) appropriate.

XML is a somewhat "heavy" way of representing information, which is why alternate representations of data exist. In particular, JSON is becoming popular as an alternate data interchange format for certain uses such as Ajax calls.

Answer 2

I got it: xml.coverpages.org.
The key was searching on "Survey XML Schema" and chasing a link or two.