What is the semantic Web and how does it differ from Extensible Markup Language?
DACONTA: The semantic Web is a web of machine-processable data. The current Web is human-readable data. With XML, you get part of the way to the semantic Web. You get syntactic interoperability, which means that both applications must agree on the syntax beforehand, and that both applications understand the meaning of that syntax [to exchange data]. If my machine has an item called ‘price,’ your machine must know what ‘price’ means. If you use ‘cost’ and not ‘price,’ then our programs cannot communicate.
