Updated Comprehensive Example (Work in Progress)
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 04:45PM
Charlie in Modeling Business Information Using XBRL

An updated comprehensive example is available. While this is "feature complete" and makes the primary points necessary, I am going to enhance certain aspects and create this in the style of an SEC XBRL financial filing.

The primary attribute of an XBRL report which this comprehensive example shows is the proper integrity of the different pieces of a business report.  The metapatterns and business use casesshow small, isolated examples which focus on a specific area.  The comprehensive examples pulls things together and focuses on the integrity of the pieces.

The best place to see the integrity is in the XBRL formulas validation results and in the navigation between components within a software application which supports such navigation. The Firefox XBRL add on is such a software application.

Stay tuned, lots of improvements are in store.

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