Jeen Broekstra has announced Sesame , an RDF Schema-based Repository and Querying facility. Part of the European IST project On-To-Knowledge, Sesame supports querying of both RDF data and Schema information, using an OQL-style query language, called RQL.

By David Coursey – Suppose, for a moment, that everything could talk to everything else. Your calendar could get information from and supply data to your documents, or your cell phone, or someone else's calendar and cell phone. Your computer's desktop could tell you that your dry cleaning is

XSLT is a language to create so called "stylesheets" containing transformation rules for XML documents. A XSLT processor allows you to apply the stylesheet to a XML document. The transformed output document can be another XML document, a HTML document or any text document.

Remarks by Bill Gates HailStorm Announcement Redmond, Wash., March 19, 2001. Take a look at what was said.

Apparently Linda doesn't like the file extensions sitting on your hard drive. A new worm, VBS/Linda-A, spreads through e-mail, IRC and network share, copying legitimate files to the .vbs extension then erasing the original file. Linda sends copies of itself to IRC users and addresses found in th

by Patrick R. Schonfeld – Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a request/response remote procedure call (RPC) protocol based on HTTP and XML. The expression "request/response" means that a client component makes a request to a server component and the client is blocked until the server se

by Edd Dumbill – The World Wide Web Consortium has recently embarked on a program of development on the Semantic Web, Director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a machine processable Web. I spoke with Berners-Lee to find out the reasons behind the new Semantic Web Activity, and how he saw it relating

By Charles Babcock, Interactive Week – IBM is experimenting with eXtensible Markup Language as a query language to get information from a much broader set of resources than rows and tables of data in relational databases.

Christian Nentwich recently released XML Linear Time Treediff, a set of open-source Java classes for quickly computing differences between DOM trees.

by J. David Eisenberg – If you're a web designer who's worked with graphics, you may have heard of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). You may even have downloaded a plug-in to view SVG files in your browser. The first and most important thing to know about SVG is that it isn't a proprietary