Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management

This article written by Uche Ogbuji, presents a practical exploration of knowledge management with XML by illustrating techniques for populating Resource Description Framework (RDF) models with data from existing XML formats. The basis of RDF's strength as a knowledge-management tool is that it allows you to organize, interrelate, classify, and annotate this knowledge, thereby increasing the aggregate value of the stored data. RDF can be easily used along with customized XML, not just as a canonical representation for certain types of data. The code samples included in this article, demonstrates how easy it can be to jump-start knowledge management with RDF even relatively late in the development game This article begins an exploration of the merging between RDF and XML. The author also demonstrates how to use XSLT to generate RDF from XML