(Martin Brown) In this second article of a four-part series, you learn to develop a voice-enabled calendar. Save the data of the calendar as XML; then to modify calendar entries, have the application read VoiceXML that contains your specified commands. The calendar can also output VoiceXML to speak

(Marco Gralike) It is nagging… I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be archived and you will need an account to access them). Because I am highly interested on XML / XMLDB stuff, I scrolled th

(William Brogden) The history of Apache Software Foundation Web service toolkits mirrors the evolution in developer understanding of SOAP and Web services concepts. The first Apache Software Foundation open source Web service related project was simply called SOAP. It was released in mid 2000 based

(Sean Michael Kerner) Citrix is acquiring XML and Web Services technology vendor QuickTree in an effort to expand the conversation between users and applications.

(Doug Tidwell) Three interesting new features in XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 are the item data type, the to operator, and the concept of sequences. Build a sample application that uses these features to generate a sophisticated HTML view of an XML document, and with the new features in XSLT 2.0, create s

(Frank Coyle) Welcome back! The previous article in this series looked at how grammars can be used with forms to build simple voice applications. To summarize our explorations so far, you’ve learned the following: –Forms and menus are the basic building blocks of a Voice XML application. –Gra

(Brian Suda) Microformats are a way to embed specific semantic data into the HTML that we use today. One of the first questions an XML guru might ask is “Why use HTML when XML lets you create the same semantics?” I won’t go into all the reasons XML might be a better or worse choice for encoding data

(Dan Wahlin) It’s amazing how much data is accessible through Web services these days. Everything from weather, to stock quotes, to language translations are available for consumption. Take a moment to scan through the services shown on XMethods.com to see the wide variety of services that are out t

(Matthias Nicola and Vitor Rodrigues) DB2 pureXML provides hierarchical storage for XML data and advanced XML query capabilities such as SQL/XML and XQuery. SQL/XML is a standardized extension of the SQL language so that XQuery or XPath can be embedded in SQL. This allows for integrated processing o

(Brian Sletten) If you’ve been following semantic web technologies, then by now you’re no doubt aware of semantic web data languages like the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). When you’re talking about storing semantic web data, usually you’re talking about RD