There are many functions we can initiate from the strength of a pattern of tagged key phrases that fit into a subject taxonomy.

H1 But is there room for it all? With all this functionality being pushed out to a browser, one might think the workstation processing load and communications bandwidth might be very heavy. But the opposite is true. Modern Browsers like Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 4.7 are stuffed full of rich processing and interface functionality that can be driven remotely through scripts generated to make them behave the way you want them to behave.

Remote Reflection
This is achieved through a method I call Remote Reflection. Think of it like trying to tie a bowtie in the mirror for the first time. It's difficult to do until you get used to it because everything is backwards. Remote Reflection creates the next boon in Internet applications. And Remote Reflectionware becomes the next application toolset.

This ability to remotely assemble browser components into Intelligent Knowledge Management applications may just create an information revolution that changes the world of application-building as we know it today. It also promises to banish the curse of InfoGlut, the vast amount of unordered data dumped at our feet by the Internet.

For you Star Trek fans, picture Remote Reflection much like the old "beam me up Scottie" transporter. The applications start on the server-side where they get pre-described automatically into XML, XSL, and JavaScript. They are then pushed out through the communication lines as assembly instructions and reassembled at the other end as a fully functional application that works, looks, and feels as prescribed.

With the Open IP proposal from Nortel Networks and Wireless Internet on the rise, the possibilities are endless. While this may sound difficult to believe, at my company, we're building new applications and products based on this concept with great success. You can even define full applications using XML-Schemas, which are far more powerful than DTDs.

How it's done
We can dynamically build multidimensional XML subject-tagged document collections and morph them into knowledge management applications that look and behave like anything we want them to. They can then integrate with corporate RDBMS and Legacy Databases through XML Tagged Foreign Keys as defined in the XML-Schema, much like data dictionaries in the days of 4GLs.

Through XML-Schema, we define the boundaries of what it is and what it can do. Through XML, we define its model structure. Through XSL we can transform its interface structure and look and feel to behave as one of the following:

• A subject color-coded speed-read or power-read document;

• A cascading Knowledge Tree of documents that unfold their knowledge in a tree-like fashion;

• A multi-dimensional color-coded context pivot-table that permits us to "slice and dice" the tagged knowledge therein much like an OLAP tool, facilitating affinity and gap analysis through a process in knowledge management I call Recontextualization;