What kinds of problems in XML can be solved using hardware acceleration? Personally, I don’t think that (software-based) XML parsing is usually a bottleneck in typical applications, but it might be for networking applications that deal with huge volumes of XML messages, especially at the large enterprise or carrier level.

For the XML 2007 conference (Boston, 3–5 December) Rich Salz, formerly with Datapower and now with IBM, has put together a 90-minute panel to go in depth into an area that few XML specialists know about.