Digital Financial Reporting

Altova announces support for XBRL, per an Altova Press Release today.  Here is the first part of the press release. (See the full press release linked to above)

Altova Introduces Version 2009 of its MissionKit Tool Suite

THE ALTOVA MISSIONKIT 2009 DELIVERS COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT FOR XBRL AND HL7 INDUSTRY STANDARDS, EXTENDED DATABASE FUNCTIONALITY, AND MORE

BEVERLY, Mass., February 3, 2009 – Altova® ( http://www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy® the industry leading XML editor, today announced the availability of Version 2009 (v2009) of the Altova MissionKit®, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. Version 2009 adds a host of powerful new features and functionality across multiple tools in the MissionKit, including comprehensive support for the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard and native database support for SQL Server® 2008, Oracle® 11g, and PostgreSQL 8. The release of Version 2009 also includes functionality for working with the Health Level Seven (HL7) standard in MapForce®, along with new database differencing capabilities in DatabaseSpy® and DiffDog®, and much more. Additionally, Altova has decided to pass savings realized due to the currently favorable US$/EUR exchange rate directly to its customers – and is decreasing its US$ prices across the entire Version 2009 product line.