The XBRL International Steering Committee and the XBRL International Standards Board have approved the publication of the Inline XBRL Specification and the associated registry of specified transformations as a RECOMMENDATION. A conformance suite accompanies this. In addition an open source reference implementation of a validator and extractor has been provided.
For more details please see http://www.xbrl.org/SpecRecommendations/
Diane Mueller is the founder of XBRLSpy Research Inc. She is an XBRL Evangelist, and a XBRL Implementation Strategist. Currently serves on the XBRL International Steering Committee and Best Practices Board, and chairs the Technical Working Group on Rendering responsible for the Inline XBRL Specification. She is a frequent commentator and lecturer on Financial Compliance, XML Standards and Semantic Web technologies. Read more..
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