Srinivas Pandrangi

This article provides a technical overview of the XBRL standard, with emphasis on the architecture of the standard and the potential applications surrounding the business reporting functionality it supports. Business reporting has been the focus of discussion over the last few years in the wake of increased government oversight. The need for compliance and the need to standardize reporting processes are driving the creation of new applications and standards. XBRL is one such standard that will provide an extensible vocabulary framework within which business reporting can be done. This standard is particularly important due to the broad industry participation in the standardization effort (over 170 members from the financial services, accounting, and technology sectors worldwide) and the increasing evidence of its adoption in practice. For example, in the U.S. the F... (more)

XML Enabled Applications: Need for Speed

XML has found numerous applications as a format for representing content and modeling business objects, as a messaging format, and as a data source. In applications that use XML in this capacity performance often leaves room for improvement. Conventional methods of processing XML prove to be inadequate and it becomes necessary to explore other options to improve the speed of your application. This article identifies some common operations that are performance hogs and finds ways to optimize these operations, thereby improving the overall performance of an application. Identifyi... (more)