How do we determine the real ROI on a web-based system? As a administrators know the challenge of determining a product’s true ROI, but without that data, we can’t justify purchases especially big, expensive systems. At Vero Beach High School, we developed a checklist of features that, when combined, should provide a clearer picture of a school’s investment.

Less is more 
A solution that addresses the needs of all grade levels and all core content areas provides a huge cost savings. The use of one system eliminates the need for different technology configurations, multiple licenses, multiple trainings, support contracts, etc (more…)

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But therein lies the attraction for Web professionals, and much of the opportunity as well. Businesses that strive to stay ahead of the curve will have a much greater chance at success. Business owners that can accurately predict the next trend. Well, that’s how multibillion dollar  companies are born.

We make no promises about the latter, but we can definitely improve your odds of achieving the former. To that end, we have identified the most important trends to watch in the year 2011. Before you examine the following pages, however, it is important to understand our definition of an important trend.

You may be tired of hearing about social media, for instance, and you hardly consider it a new development. But if you employ the same social strategies in 2011 as you did in 2010, and fail to account for the changes coming in the next year, your business will suffer the consequences. (more…)

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Regular expressions are sets of special characters or character sequences that are used to match string values in text data. XPath 2.0 offers improved support for regular expressions. This is useful because it enables you to search for particular string patterns and return nodes that match those string patterns.

XPath 2.0 functions

In XPath 2.0, three new functions provide support for regular expressions:

• tokenize()
• matches()
• replace()

tokenize()

You use the tokenize() function to split a string into substrings. For example, you can use this function to split a sentence into separate words. The syntax for the tokenize() function is (more…)

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After getting know on examining and XBRL taxonomy part 1, let continue the rest of the topic.

The structure of an XBRL GL document

This diagram shows the basic structure of an XBRL GL document.

The top-level element of an XBRL GL document, which appears directly after the XBRL instance document root element, is accountingEntries, which is a tuple. (more…)

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An XBRL taxonomy is a document or set of documents defining a specific information set that can be reported using the XBRL specification. It assigns unique tags to specific accounting elements such as gross profit or price/earnings ratio.

Financial reporting taxonomies
Because accounting standards and business requirements vary between regions and organizations, financial reporting taxonomies are created specifically for individual regions, industries, or even companies. To improve the usability of taxonomy documents, XBRL International specifies recommended taxonomy design architecture guidelines on its web site. (more…)

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