A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 19 August, 2003.
W3C issues OWL as a Candidate RecommendationOWL is a language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies, intended to enable richer integration and interoperability of data across application boundaries.
Sun's "Fast Web Services" initiativeFast Web Services explores the use of more efficient binary encodings as an alternative to textual XML representations