BeerXML
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| Filename extension | .xml |
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| Internet media type | |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.xml |
| UTI conformation | public.text |
| Type of format | Markup language |
| Contained by | XML |
| Extended from | SGML |
| Standard | 1.0 |
| Open format? | Yes |
| Status | Published |
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| Year started | 2005 |
| Editors | Brad Smith, Drew Avis, Michael Taylor, Andrew Perron, David Johnson |
| Related standards | XML Schema |
| Domain | Data Serialization |
| Website | BeerXML |
BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data descriptionstandard designed for the exchange of beer brewing recipes and other brewing data. Tables of recipes as well as other records such as hop schedules and malt bills can be represented using BeerXML for use by brewing software.
BeerXML is an open standard and as a subset of Extensible Markup Language (XML). BeerXML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable
BeerXML is supported by a number of web sites, computer programmes and an increasing number of Android Windows Phone and iOS apps.
Plugins and extensions supporting BeerXML have been written for a variety of platforms including Ruby via RubyGems,WordPress,PHP and JavaScript
Brewing hardware manufacturers have begun to incorporate BeerXML into their systems and third party plugins and patches are being developed for brewery control hardware and embedded systems allowing the automation and fine control and timing of processes such as mashing and potentially fermentation.
BeerXML is used in both amateur and professional brewing and facilitates the sharing of brewing data over the internet. Users of different applications such as the open-source software Brewtarget (with more than 52,000 downloads ) can share data via XML with users of popular proprietary software such as Beersmith and ORRTIZ: BMS 4 Breweries or upload their data to share on BeerXML compatible sharing sites and cloud platforms such as Brewtoad (over 50,000 registered users ) or the Beersmith Recipe Cloud (with 43,000 registered users). A user of a recipe design and sharing and creation site such as Brewersfriend.com can import and export BeerXML to and from mobile apps or enter it into a brewing competition database such as The Brew Competition Online Entry & Management (BCOE&M) system.
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