XBRL US, the nonprofit nsortium for XML business reporting, announced that detailed case studies and advanced ics in XML and XBRL development would be presented at its upming Pacific Rim Technology Workshop to be held at Hitachi Data Systems Headquarters in Santa Clara, California on July 28-30, 2009.

“Product managers and XML developers stand to gain significantly from this workshop where they’ll have an opportunity to learn, share ideas and me up with solutions to issues like rendering, versioning and maintenance. This workshop is worthwhile not only for XBRL experts but for the uninitiated who are still in the learning phase,” said Campbell Pryde, Chief Standards Officer, XBRL US.

Key ics that will be vered include:

Practical, hands-on taxonomy maintenance workshop – an overview of the change management process in place today through real-world case studies in Japan and the US; participants will be able to test out change management approaches during the session

Versioning discussion panel – business requirements and proposed solutions

Tagging approaches – examples of three different methods and discussion of the pros and ns for each

 Rendering challenges – a dialogue about issues and possible solutions

Data quality and validation – discussion on problems in XBRL creation, how it impacts the user and ways to solve it

Database and business intelligence – discussion of the challenges in storing, querying and retrieving XBRL data to maximize mparability of information

In addition, special ic speakers will include:

Michael Travis, Chief Operating Officer and Board of Directors, Hitachi Information & Telemmunication Systems Global Holding pany

Steve Wright, Director of Innovation, Salesforce.m Foundation

Product managers, XML and XBRL developers should attend. plimentary media passes are available for the press.

The nference will be held at Hitachi headquarters in Santa Clara, California. To learn more and to register for the event, go to http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/PacificRim.aspx