Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), formerly code-named XFRML, is an open specification which uses XML-based data tags to describe financial statements for both public and private companies. XBRL benefits all members of the financial information supply chain.

Storing user-data traditionally has been fairly complicated – you needed write code on the server for storing, retrieving, and applying the user data. Standard cookies offer minimal relief but are very limiting in the amount of data they can store. Internet Explorer 5.0 helps address this problem by

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and was approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in February 1998. Computer careers in it are just beginning. XML is the foundation for a whole new way of communicating across the Internet, and even beyond. So what does that mean? And why should you c

Context menus are commands that are displayed when the user right-clicks on your web-page. Microsoft's MSDN has a simple tutorial demonstrating how you can create your own custom context menus. In this article, we heavily modified their sample code to provide a framework for quickly defining you

Have you ever wished to debug an XSL transformation with the features of a debugger like those in Microsoft's Visual Basic IDE? The XSLDebugger is the answer to your debugging needs! The XSLDebugger now has syntax coloring!

A recent announcement from the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) describes the availability of the Version 2.5 release of the NITF XML DTD. "NITF is an XML-based DTD designed for the markup and delivery of news content in a variety of ways, including print, wireless devices a

Rick Jelliffe has announced a sample Schematron schema for SOAP 1.1. In his announcement on the Distributed Application mailing list, Jelliffe commented that SOAP "suffers from not being expressed in a schema language".

Simple Object Access Protocol is one of the neatest XML based technologies to be introduced as of late, yet many people are still trying to get a handle on all of the new terms and acronyms that SOAP has uncovered. This article is written to help you dig through the SOAP soup we have in front of us

ASP+ configuration information is stored in XML-based configuration files. Using built-in features of IIS 5.0 and IE 5.0 such as the FileSystemObject, the XML Document Object Model (DOM) and XML Data Islands, we can easily develop a rich tool for modifying and editing these configuration files. In t

XML Data Binding for the JavaTM 2 Platform aims to automatically generate substantial portions of the Java platform code that processes XML data. Data binding applications will be small and fast, suitable for server-side applications and other applications where processing efficiency is paramount. A