A new standard developed by a consortium of industry players including American Express, Compaq, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, SETCo, Transactor Networks, verifone and Visa USA. Consequently, one-click purchasing at all compatible Web sites is facilitated. See the ECML site for more details.

A proposed standard which offers set of uniform field names that streamlines the process by which merchants collect electronic data for shipping, billing, and payment. ECML can be found at www.ecml.org.

See Electronic Commerce Markup Language

Electronic Commerce Modeling Language

ECML is a simple XSL/Javascript framework which provides high level components for internet browsers.

Embedded Component Mark Language. The Embedded Component Mark Language provides a unique interface to the configurable information of the C5 operating system. ECML is defined using XML syntax, making it benefit from existing XML tools, especially browsers and parsers. The configuration of C5 operating system is defined in a number of EMCL files that can be modified using the configurator tool.

East Coast Main Line (used by Virgin Trains between Aberdeen and Doncaster).