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">				<outline text="(You only have to tell it once)"/>				</outline>			<outline text="From then on, your system can monitor the other website for stuff published in the &quot;froggies&quot; categories. Automatically."/>			</outline>		<outline text="How can I monitor the other website?">			<outline text="Because they publish their metadata scheme and the pages they publish and what metadata those pages relate to as an XFML file.">				<outline text="(Note: These slides are written with Radio's outliner tool BTW, very cool technology. Check out OPML as well.)"/>				</outline>			<outline text="XFML publishes, for anyone to see, what metadata you have on your site (categories, subcategories, faceted metadata), and how pages of your website relate to that website"/>			</outline>		<outline text="What else does it do?">			<outline text="XFML allows you to (publicly, and in a way other systems that can import XFML can understand automatically) say things like:">				<outline text="This page contains a weblog entry about the topic &quot;frogs&quot;"/>				<outline text="This page also contains a picture about the topic &quot;frogs&quot;"/>				<outline text="My topic &quot;frogs&quot; is the same as your topic &quot;froggies&quot;"/>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="What does it look like?">			<outline text="An XFML file contains TOPICS, organised in FACETS."/>			<outline text="And PAGES, with OCCURRENCES of topics. [out of date portion removed]"/>			<outline text="There is an example at http://xfml.org/spec/example.xml"/>			</outline>		<outline text="What more is XFML good for?">			<outline text="If other people publish their metadata scheme, you know what happens?">				<outline text="&lt;b&gt;You can import existing schemes!&lt;/b&gt; Taxonomies other people wrote."/>				<outline text="And adjust them for your own needs."/>				<outline text="(And your website could remember the origins of the scheme, so you wouldn't even have to manually indicate related topics anymore.)"/>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="So what does that all lead to?">			<outline text="A &lt;b&gt;loosely connected&lt;/b&gt; web of published metadata schemes. Not perfect, but useful anyway."/>			<outline text="A really cool way to generate your navigation, effectively &lt;b&gt;separating navigation from content&lt;/b&gt;."/>			</outline>		<outline text="What XFML isn't meant to be">			<outline text="It's not meant to be the metadata format to solve all your problems. Check out XTM (http://topicmaps.org)"/>			<outline text="It's not syndication. (RSS does that)"/>			<outline text="Find out more at http://xfml.org "/>			</outline>		<outline text="The end">			<outline text="http://xfml.org">				<outline text="http://xfml.org/spec/example.xml"/>				</outline>			<outline text="By Peter Van Dijck">				<outline text="http://petervandijck.net "/>				<outline text="http://poorbuthappy.com/ease"/>				</outline>			<outline text="A more detailed introduction aimed at information architects: http://radio.weblogs.com/0108991/slides/xfmlForInformationArchitects/slide0001.html"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>