We are happy to announce that the following paper has been accepted for publication at the 7th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP'08) that will take place at Ispra, Italia, on September 11-12, 2008: An XML format proposal for the description of weighted automata, transducers, and regular expressions Akim Demaille (1), Alexandre Duret-Lutz (1), Florian Lesaint (1), Sylvain Lombardy (2), Jacques Sakarovitch (3), and Florent Terrones (1) (1) LRDE, EPITA (2) IGM, Univ. Marne-la-vallée (3) LTCI, CNRS/ENST http://publis.lrde.epita.fr/200809-FSMNLP We present an XML format that allows to describe a large class of finite weighted automata and transducers. Our design choices stem from our policy of making the implementation as simple as possible. This format has been tested for the communication between the modules of our automata manipulation platform Vaucanson, but this document is less an experiment report than a position paper intended to open the discussion among the community of automata software writers. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz