ESEF anchoring statistics

ESEF anchoring statistics

CoreFiling is naturally following the evolution of ESEF reporting and has already taken the opportunity to analyse some of the published filings. One area of interest is how companies are extending the taxonomy using the anchoring mechanism. This type of analysis can...
Notes around XII packaging specifications

Notes around XII packaging specifications

The first XBRL International Inc (XII) packaging specification, developed in 2015, was aimed solely at providing a standard mechanism for packaging XBRL taxonomies, not reports, in ZIP archives (a compressed, portable, single file containing a directory and file...
Schemas and XBRL

Schemas and 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...
Taxonomies as easy as one-two-three

Taxonomies as easy as one-two-three

When CoreFiling undertook a survey of data collectors, we found a core message coming through: “Writing taxonomies should be as easy as possible and as automated as possible!” CoreFiling took this on board when moving our Taxonomy Management System (TMS) out of the...