Stefano Mazzocchi (Mr. Cocoon):

"The Semantic Web has a serious problem: the XML people don't understand it."

He therefore wrote a short guide to Semantic Web specs for XML people (Part I)", explaining RDF, RDF/XML, N3(!), RDFS and OWL in short words and selected examples.
Great resource, I already wonder what will be in Part II.

DENG, an XML/CSS2 browser supporting subsets of CSS2, CSS3 Namespaces, XHTML, XForms, XFrames and SVGhas been released under the GPL today. It's written entirely in OO-Flash ActionScript(!).
Now let's see how large those subsets are.. get it from SourceForge

Software AG and Ecole d'ingénieurs de Fribourg are opening TheXMLAcademy just a stone's throw away from my office.
Together with the new university building being built right now for the econimists and the new EMAF building, Pérolles looks really like the 'hot spot' of Fribourg these days.
We're here for more than two years now, nice -and strange- to see the crowd following now. Locally as well as thematically.

The XQuark ("XQuery Advanced Runtime Kernel") project provides J2EE open source information integration components based on XML and XQuery, wrapping heterogenous datasources such as different relational databases and plain XML files through XQuery.
I must have a closer look at that, as well as (again) at JSR 170 and its implementation, since I'm going to Zivilschutz with the nice guy having the specification lead..

My favourite elitist weekly journal, DIE ZEIT has added two very interesting features to their website recently.
First, there's an RSS 0.91 Newsfeed. For a newspaper of their tradition and reputation, this looks quite progressive indeed!
But then, there's something even nicer: On each and every of their content pages, there's a link to its XML representation, which looks like http://xml.zeit.de/2004/01/S__Hussein.
Just replace "xml.zeit.de" by "www.zeit.de" to see it rendered in HTML.. Quite straightforward, indeed.. I have no idea yet what this service might be good for (apart from bewildering their xml-unaware readers, that is), but hey, isn't it just cool?
So if anybody knows a reasonable use case for that new xml service, I'd love to hear about it!