by Ben Russell | Oct 7, 2021 | Digital Future Reporting, Quality, Solutions, Taxonomy
It is becoming common for data collection programmes to release versions of taxonomies with an expectation that external stakeholders will provide feedback on issues based on their own testing. Subsequent work and new releases allow the data collector to reach the...
by Chris Mills | Sep 3, 2021 | Products, Quality, Solutions, Taxonomy, XBRL
New taxonomies are published by regulators for a variety of reasons, to fix issues, introduce new report types or to apply year-on-year changes. CoreFiling customers are used to being given access to new versions of reports well before they are required, but how do we...
by Katherine Haigh | Jul 27, 2021 | Quality, Solutions, Taxonomy
In this age of digital reporting, hundreds of XBRL taxonomies are published every year. Our analysis at CoreFiling shows that there are a few common mistakes that repeatedly crop up in such taxonomies. These issues can limit their usefulness, slow down implementation...
by Philip Allen | May 10, 2021 | Quality, Solutions, Taxonomy
In my previous blogs, I have talked about how the iXBRL document validation process consists of a number of steps, like a ladder. If the validation process returns a failure at one step, it must stop processing immediately. It must NOT move on to the next step. Why?...
by Philip Allen | Apr 27, 2021 | Inline XBRL, Quality
1. Well-formedness To be machine-readable, XML has to be well formed. Attributes have to be enclosed in quotes; certain characters have to be escaped; all opening tags have to be matched with closing tags. A human reader may recognise easily that a closing tag...
by Philip Allen | Apr 9, 2021 | Quality, Taxonomy, XBRL
The invention of schemas to provide formal definition of the contents of XML documents was one of the most important innovations accompanying the creation of the world wide web. For the first time it was possible to develop a generic data validator which was...
