Updated Interactive Information Viewer
I have created an updated "interactive information viewer" based on a bunch of work I have done trying to understand how to best render XBRL information in general and specifically for financial reporting. Details of what I am seeing can be found in these three blog entries:
- Thoughts on Rendering (First Installment)
- Thoughts on Rendering (Second Installment)
- Thoughts on Rendering (Third Installment)
My next step will be to update the comprehensive example which looks a little more like a financial statement to take advantage of the things which I have learned in this little exercise. These are the test cases I am using to try and pull all these pieces together:
- Metapatterns: http://www.xbrlsite.com/Demos/Metapatterns/2009-03-14/
- Business use cases: http://www.xbrlsite.com/Patterns/2008-04-18/
- Comprehensive example: http://www.xbrlsite.com/examples/ComprehensiveExample/
If anyone has any better ways to get to the right result, I would love to hear from you.
The goal which I am striving toward is to make the following work for XBRL in general and XBRL specifically for financial reporting:
- Business users can do all of this without the IT department getting involved (ease of use)
- Extensibility which works correctly (not forms)
- Rendering which is easy and interactive (not static renderings)
- Does everthing which is needed today plus more (new beneficial features)
- Global, open standard (not proprietary to one software vendor)
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