CSW’s Knowledge Management Suite (KMS) has been designed from the ground up using the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and related standards. Below are some of the major standards available and used across the suite.



XML Standards
- XML Core
- XML v1.0 / v1.1
- XPath v2.0
- XSLT v2.0
- W3C XML Schema v1.0
- XML Namespaces v1.0
- XInclude v1.0
- Unicode
- Web Services
- SOAP
- WSDL
- WSFL
- REST
- Metadata and Ontology
- RDF
- RDF(S)
- OWL-DL
- Delivery standards
- XHTML
- XSL-FO (PDF)
- RDF/OWL
KMS allows customers to define and use their own XML vocabularies for storage and engineering of content. There are a number of vocabulary standards for different industry verticals which can also be supported by KMS.
Vocabularies
- Technical Manuals
- DITA
- Automotive Diagnostic Job Information
- ODX
- News & Publishing
- NewsML
- AdsML
- Docbook

