Interactive data supports organizations to communicate effectively with
their stakeholders and partners on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a key enabling
technology for interactive data. XBRL links organizations and knowledge
consumers in a variety of information value chains. XBRL is now in use
in many countries and important settings. This book provides, for the
first time, an in-depth analysis of XBRL. Thorough and up-to-date, this
book explains the most popular constructs in XML, on which XBRL builds,
and XBRL. The book provides business and policy makers, technologists
and information engineers with an essential toolkit to understand the
complete implementation of XBRL. The book begins with an overview of the
business case for interactive data and XBRL. There is an introduction to
XML and XBRL and the design and construction of XBRL taxonomies
including extensions and multi-dimensional XBRL implementations. It
provides a detailed analysis of the interaction of instance documents
and taxonomies. The book also provides a synopsis of the most current
XBRL technologies.