Daniel Veillard announced a "beginning for a security framework for libxslt" giving control over read and write access permissions to the file system during the execution of XSLT transformations.
Following a town meeting organized at KT 2002, Lars Marius Garshol publishes a RDF schema for Topic Maps which should contribute to reconciliate the two communities of the Semantic Web.
Is XML just a handy serialization syntax for distributed objects that should stay out of sight?
Or is XML a way of marking up documents and business messages to make them program-friendly?
Kurt Cagle discusses the comeback of document-centric XML and the virtues of keeping it naked rather than letting vendors dress it up in their proprietary clothes.