Wow, two very hot articles on XML.com.

Mark's piece on Atom and RDF (sorry - we failed the audition) and Kendall's on OWL.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/dive.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/deviant.html

So Atom is XML with a maintained, normative XSLT port to RDF. Better than nothing I suppose and most Atom providers will transform on the server and provide both XML and RDF feeds.

Mark, perceptive chap that he is, drills down to the two reasons why RDF won't be on Fame Academy next week. Tool support and RDF / XML syntax.

Mark is down on the Semantic Web. Well I never thought of the Semantic Web as some ethereal, elusive concept dreamt up by some PR brain farter. To me it is just code; a way to code a bit of 'intelligence' into our software applications. And OWL, as Kendall reports, is a step towards this.