DSML

Directory Service Markup Language (DSML) is a representation of directory service information in an XML syntax.

The DSML version 1 effort was announced by creator Bowstreet on July 12, 1999. Initiative supporters include AOL-Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Novell, Microsoft, and IBM. It resulted in a Document Type Definition for a file containing the XML representation of entries in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol data model, similar in spirit to LDAP Data Interchange Format.

The DSML version 2 effort was promulgated in OASIS (organization). It resulted in an XML schema for the representation of directory access operations based on that of LDAP, that could be carried in Simple Object Access Protocol.

The Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) also from OASIS is based on the concepts of DSMLv2, but does not have such a tight coupling to the LDAP information model.