(Frank Coyle) Welcome to the first of a series of articles on VoiceXML, an XML technology that is driving many of the phone based services that you may well be already using. If you’ve ever called the airlines to check the status of your flight, dialed 1.800.FANDANGO for a movie location or ordered

(Kyle Gabhart and David Johnson) Service orientation is sweeping through modern enterprise environments like the Black Plague swept through Europe (hopefully the parallels end there). At the same time, enterprises seem increasingly interested in supporting thin clients and mobile interfaces. The con

(Ed Tittel) In late April, 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a working draft of a new 3.0 version of its Mathematical Markup Language, aka MathML. Given that MathML 2.0 became a recommendation in 2003, it’s interesting to consider the reasons why a new, next effort for math markup i

(Tom Olzak) AJAX is providing developers with a huge opportunity to create dynamic and intuitive Web applications. However, it also brings with it a host of vulnerabilities caused by programming mistakes or oversights.

Hey, do you know any way to Parse word XML data? I am trying to extract name, address, job info, etc., from a resume that was converted to XML. My first response to this person was basically “Hell No”. Dealing with Microsoft Word in any way, from an XML point of view, is basically a sure fire way

(Deepak Vohra) A web service consists of a server to serve requests to the web service and a client to invoke methods on the web service. The PHP class library provides the SOAP extension to develop SOAP servers and clients and the XML-RPC extension to create XML-RPC servers and clients. Before I de

(Uche Ogbuji) Search and web feeds go together pretty naturally, as anyone who has set up some kind of vanity search feed knows. You go to your favorite Web 2.0 search engine and set up a query like http://web20.example.com/search=john+doe&ouptut=atom and search for “john doe,” but rather than getti

(Rich Seeley) Creating service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications using an XML document-centric approach to build Web services without coding may sound too good to be true, but analysts who have seen it say it works and may be the future of SOA development. (R)

(Michael Galpin) An XML parser is often the key to a high-performance, robust application. Traditional XML parsing techniques include Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX). Now there’s an innovative new parsing technique called Streaming API for XML (StAX) that’s so beneficial it’

(Dan Wahlin) Web Services provide a convenient way to pass data between AJAX applications and a server. ASP.NET AJAX provides an excellent infrastructure for Web Service integration into AJAX applications and makes it all cross-browser through incorporating JSON into the mix. While JSON is compact