Read more about it in my recent blog post: xmlaficionado.com/XML+Aficiona...

The core insight behind this tool is simple: most people working on financial reports aren't developers, nor should they need to be. They're financial professionals who understand their data inside and out—they just need a straightforward way to apply the right XBRL tags without getting bogged down.

You can try it right now at xbrl-tagging.com — no account setup, no software installation, no waiting around for IT approval. Just upload your existing financial reports in any format (PDF, HTML, JPEG, PNG, SVG, etc.), upload your extension taxonomy, and start tagging.

Here is a link to the full blog post for more information:
www.altova.com/blog/new-too...

And on the regulatory side we've added support for the ESEF Reporting Manual 2024 to both XMLSpy and RaptorXML+XBRL Server, so you can now process and validate ESEF reports in iXBRL format not just based on the XBRL taxonomy, but also based on the additional rules in the ESEF Reporting Manual.

Speaking of YAML editing, XMLSpy already has tons of features for validating, editing, and converting YAML, and — new in this release — you can now also convert XML Schemas to YAML schemas and you can query YAML documents with XQuery.

A full OpenAPI Editor that allows editing OpenAPI YAML documents with full entry-helper support, as well as an extension of the built-in HTTP tester that now enables you to test connections against any API with an OpenAPI specification, including auto-generation of test messages.

OpenAPI has already been supported in MapForce since v2025, but this release now also adds two OpenAPI features to XMLSpy...

This can be used to, for instance, write Shopify sales data to a backend database or to import real-time data from an inventory system to a Shopify store.

MapForce now supports integrating with Shopify APIs via the GraphQL query and mutation language. This allows the integration of Shopify data in ETL and data integration workflows. MapForce supports calls to Shopify/GraphQL APIs as the source or target of any data mapping project.

...and in particular we covered common misconceptions about the immediacy of threats to private-key security and Bitcoin.
Read the full details of our conversation here:
xmlaficionado.com/XML+Aficiona...

We spoke at length about Microsoft’s recent quantum computing breakthroughs, including topological qubits using Majorana quasiparticles, and discussed realistic timelines for future quantum computing developments at scale and potential impacts on cryptography and cryptocurrencies...

Blog post and videos are here:
xmlaficionado.com/XML+Aficiona...

The second video takes a closer look at a very common use-case: a basic CSV to database ETL pipeline. And in the third video we will take a look at a more complex ETL example that requires cleaning and aggregating data from multiple CSV files before loading it into a database.

In this 3-part video series ETL Tutorial, we’ll walk you through each stage of the ETL process. The first video provides an introduction to what ETL is and how it works, and why MapForce is an efficient ETL tool.