There are a number of xml formats for resume. You can find few of them at http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-format

There are a number of xml formats for resume. You can find few of them at http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats . Having xml, markdown, textile or xhtml with microformat extesions format as a base is not stopping you from sending hr companies doc or pdf generated document. There are some tools and libraries for this task.