XBRL-based structured digital financial reporting - Blog: Digital Financial Reporting (using XBRL)

This video is an excellent discussion of extensibility and what it takes to make extensibility work correctly. One key takeaway is that all of the following needs to be addressed to make extensibility work:

syntax
vocabulary
validity (validation)
meaning (semantics)
behavior

This is somewhat technical.

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