W3C Cooks Up Data Integration with GRDDL

As the usage of XML as the primary representation format within a content management system proliferates, the discussion revolves around how to transform said XML into a human readable format.
And what about the machines? Who is looking out for them when it comes time to consume data in a custom GRDDL format?
Affectionately known as “griddle,” the “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages” (GRDDL) recommendation from the W3C provides a way for an XML document to declare that it contains gleanable data along with a link to an algorithm (which will usually use XSLT) for gleaning RDF data from the document.