Notes On The XII Packaging Specifications

Notes On The 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...
The Inline XBRL Validation Stack

The Inline XBRL Validation Stack

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 has...
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...
XBRL instance document integrity

XBRL instance document integrity

What is instance document integrity? Any discussion about the capabilities of XBRL taxonomies would be incomplete without considering mechanisms that help to ensure the integrity of instance documents prepared in accordance with them. But what do we mean by...