Two XML World conference keynotes are available online: Tim Berners-Lee's "XML and the Web," and Edd Dumbill's "Distributed XML."

Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the W3C announced the release of his presentation, saying that the two presentations

"fitted together rather well I thought, and with the conference chair Joe Golner's opening talk setting the scene by saying how he had been almost killed in the military by a difference in interpretation of a similar term used by different groups."

Berners-Lee's presentation, XML and the Web, explores the relationship between XML and existing Web technologies, notably URIs.

Edd Dumbill's presentation, Distributed XML, explores "The role played by XML in the next-generation Web," giving special attention to the potential of RDF and SOAP inside of a "Universal Computer" distributed across the Web.

Edd Dumbill is an editor of xmlhack.