RDF, What's It Good For?. Kendall Grant Clark ponders the hidden benefits of RDF, and examines the XML-DEV community response to a recent XML.com article on making XML documents RDF-friendly. [XML.com]
Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools. Ontologies, structured depictions or models of known facts, are being built today to make a number of applications more capable of handling complex and disparate information. Michael Denny surveys the tools available for creating and editing ontologies. [XML.com]
Automatic Numbering, Part 1. In this month's Transforming XML column Bob Ducharme explains the use of xsl:number in handling numbers in XSLT stylesheets. [XML.com]
Normalizing XML, Part 1. Will Provost's XML Schema Clinic series takes a look at the relational features of W3C XML Schema, applying the concepts of relational normalization to schema design. [XML.com]
The W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Working Group recently released a slew of new specifications. Shelley Powers provides an overview of each draft. [XML.com]
Working on the SpacePublisher Groove tool. The tool displays a simple list with the available tools within a space. A simple checkbox determines wether or not the tool is to be published to the web. This is an important decision: when checked the contents of the tool will flow from the private domain into the public domain. So every spacemember must agree on doing this. Jon Udell wrote about this issue. For now it publishes the outliner-tool, the discussion-tool and the notepad-tool. Click here to view the webmirror of a Public Groove Space (in there you can find an invitation for the space).