Anders Jacobsen placed his blogroll (list of weblogs he reads) on his site by applying an XSLT stylesheet to his Aggie opml channel list.
What a great idea! I lifted his stylesheet (with attribution, of course), tweaked it a bit and published my own blogroll.
Note: my implementation applies the formatting in IE but not Mozilla. Mozzilla users will just get the plain opml file.
Perceive Designs has created an excellent Aggie stylesheet that incorporates stock quotes, local weather, tracking keywords hits in blog entries and more. Amazing what you can do with this xsl stuff. (Found via Bitworking.org.)
The group that maintains the RSS standard is exploring the addition of some taxonomy elements. (Found via Ease.)
At first glance it looks like it will give you the ability to add pointers to related information and/or topics on your own web site or elsewhere. Taking a weblog as an example, you could add category-specific archives links to individual posts in an RSS feed. A news reader could then render links to your category archive for a particular post which the user could then follow if they want to see whatelse you have said on the overall subject.
A new XML standard has been proposed for publishing faceted metadata. XFML.
eXchangable Faceted Metadata Language. XFML is an open XML format to publish and share faceted metadata for websites. It allows for easy creation of advanced, automatically generated navigation for your website. You can even automatically generate links to related topics on other websites. It also allows for merging of metadata between different websites.
This looks promising for publishing meta data that can be used by other web sites and/or user client software. After reviewing the information on the site it does not appear that they borrowed anything from the Zthes DTD for xml representation of a thesaurus. It seems to me that creating linkages between the two could make both standards stronger.
C. David Gammel, CAE 