Thoughts on Rendering (Third Installment)
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:07PM
Charlie

(This is a continuation of the post "Thoughts on Rendering Second Installment").

The first and second installment of these thoughts relating to rendering XBRL lead to this third installment.  Be sure to go back to the other two posts.  Also, be aware that this post may seem to ramble.  That is brainstorming, trying to figure this out.  A conclusion will be reached, bear with the process.  If you just want to skip to the conclusion below, you can do so.

First, let me summarize the requirments of what I am trying to achieve:

Requirements:

Here are prototypes of the outputs of the process (you have to use your imagination here and try and meld these different pieces together into a hybrid of something which does not exist today):

OK, so how do you get to the set of outputs described above and meet the requirements which we started out with?  That, still, is the $64,000 question.  Here are the inputs which are needed in order to make this work, it seems:

Conclusion

Given the requirements, the output goal, the inputs discussed above (and additional details of those inputs discussed on the previous two blog posts related to rendering XBRL and other information all of which is somewhere on this blog), this is what I see:

Now, granted...none of this may be clear to you, it may take some effort to understand all these moving pieces because this information is not that well organized.  I have to figure out a better way to communicate this information.  But, I think I am right about what I see and am definitely willing to be wrong if someone has a better idea.  But, until I see the requirements stated above being met, I will assume that I am at least on the right track.

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