Category: XBRL Definitions

Process of checking that instance documents and taxonomies correctly meet the rules of the XBRL specification

Calculation relationship attribute (-1 or +1) that works in conjunction with the balance of the parent and child numeric elements to determine the arithmetic summation relationship

Process of checking that instance documents and taxonomies correctly meet the rules of the XBRL specification.

Data types (monetary, string, share, decimal, and so forth) define the kind of data to be tagged with the element name.

Electronic dictionary of business reporting elements used to report business data. A taxonomy is composed of an element names file (.xsd) and relationships files directly referenced by that schema. The taxonomy schema files together with the relationships files define the concepts (elements) and relationships that form the basis of the taxonomy. The set of related… Continue reading Taxonomy, Taxonomies

To apply tags to an instance document.

Identifying information that describes a unit of data in an instance document and encloses it in angle brackets (<> and ). All facts in an instance document are enclosed by tags that identify the element of the fact.

An element that organizes a set of axes and a set of line items to indicate that each fact of one of the line items could be further characterized along one or more of its axes. For example, if a line item is Sales and an axis is Scenario, this means that an instance document… Continue reading Table

The default label for an element. An extension may override the standard label.

Denotes whether a numeric fact in an instance has a positive (+) or negative (-) value