by Edd Dumbill. The first ever Knowledge Technologies conference, hosted by the GCA, is taking place in Austin, Texas this week. It is attended by a mixed audience of librarians, AI experts, knowledge management technologists, and the Web community. As far as XML is concerned, this means people from

Even if you fine-tune your database, your ADO code, your network, and so on, you will find that there is another way that beats them all when it comes to performance: caching. Caching is an old technique for increasing performance by storing frequently-used data on the server, therefore reducing cos

Telera, the Voice Web Infrastructure Company(SM), announced its conformance to Version 1.0 of the VoiceXML specification — an open programming language that makes Web content and Web-based applications accessible via any telephone through the use of voice commands or traditional touchtone input. Ba

by Leigh Dodds Since XSLT and XPointer rely on XPath, developers are asking whether an XPath API should be created.

LeapfrogXML(TM), Inc., announced the launch of its company, which has developed the first smart Web services for IT consulting companies, ASP's, Telco's and other customers. The company's mission is to be the leading provider of eBusiness Web services software that give enterprises the a

XML is becoming more and more popular, so are it's surrounding technologies like XSLT, SOAP, etc. Microsoft is doing good job keeping up with the standards and it was proved when MSXML 3.0 was released in November last year. MSXML 3.0 Web release is a perfect DOM based XML parser, with SAX 2.0 s

Adding VoiceXML to your Web site can be an effective way to make your content accessible to many more customers. This is Part I of a comprehensive tutorial on the VoiceXML specification, so get ready to have some fun and be sure to come back for Part II where we will develop a complete dynamic Voice

by Dan Wahlin It's no secret that XML can be used in a variety of ways, ranging from exchanging data in complex business-to-business (B2B) transactions to providing structure for application configuration files. As XML continues to gain software support, it's a safe bet that XML's u

Welcome to the wonderful world of Extensible Markup Language (XML). This short article is an effort to explain what XML is, what are it's benefits, and briefly describe some of standards evolving around it.

A group of respected XSLT experts have created a petition against the xsl:script element, recently added to the XSLT 1.1 Working Draft. The element is considered harmful to the portability of XSLT sheets, and contradictory to the statement that "XSLT is not intended as a completely ge