The XML 2003 conference

Michael Champion 
 reports 
 on the XML 2003 conference in Philadelphia. The first day centered on
 XML metadata, which is supposed to become part of all future XML data.

XML metadata, combined with technologies already at our disposal, such as XPath,
 could lay the groundwork for future information exchange. And exchange would be just the tip of the iceberg. There’s also aggregation, 
 search and other automated processing. For me, these are
 signs that today’s web will move, little by little, 
 toward the Semantic Web.