Edmund Gimzewski has 15 years of experience in developing software for the financial sector and has been working with XML since its inception. In the last five years he has specialized in XML-centric systems for general software development and for defining and applying financial and other calculations.
Schema languages like XBRL (the Extensible Business Reporting Language) can define the structure of a financial statement, and the data itself can be saved as an XML instance of the schema. The data is often processed further using formulas; for example, to verify balances and derive d...
May. 26, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,817
