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Acronym Expansion

XML Mail Transport Protocol

Description

XMTP is a mapping of MIME/SMTP to XML. MIME is the lingua franca of the Web. Both the HTTP and SMTP protocols are MIME based. As XML gains in popularity it is useful to be able to represent MIME messages as XML documents. This mapping is straightforward and demonstrates handling of binary data in XML documents as base64 encodings. Using XMTP, SMTP messages can be transformed via XSLT into HTML pages for viewing. XMTP has been implemented in Java using SAX and in C++/COM using the IE5 DOM.(Definition adapted from the original specification document)

Additional information

http://xml.coverpages.org/xmtp.html