eXtensible Business Reporting Language
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XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a freely available global framework for exchanging business information. XBRL allows the expression of semantics commonly required in business reporting. The standard was originally based on XML, but now supports reports in JSON and CSV formats in addition to the original XML-based syntax. XBRL is also increasingly used in its Inline XBRL variant, which embeds XBRL tags into an HTML document. One common use of XBRL is the exchange of financial information, such as in a company's annual financial report. The XBRL standard is developed and publish
Key facts
- File format.name
- eXtensible Business Reporting Language
- File format.icon
- 300px
- File format.extension
- .xbrl, .xml
- File format.mime
- application/xml
- File format.owner
- XBRL International
- File format.latest release version
- v2.1 (with errata corrections)
- File format.genre
- Markup language
- File format.extendedfrom
- XML
- File format.standard
- XBRL 2.1 Specification
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Specification
- XBRL document structure
- XBRL Instance
- XBRL Taxonomy
- Label Linkbase
- Reference Linkbase
- Calculation Linkbase
- Definition Linkbase
- Presentation Linkbase
- XBRL modules
- Extensibility
- iXBRL
- History
- Lack of accuracy
- Impact of XBRL
- Impact on financial reporting in the European Union
- See also
- References
- External links
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a freely available global framework for exchanging business information. XBRL allows the expression of semantics commonly required in business reporting. The standard was originally based on XML, but now supports reports in JSON and CSV formats in addition to the original XML-based syntax. XBRL is also increasingly used in its Inline XBRL variant, which embeds XBRL tags into an HTML document. One common use of XBRL is the exchange of financial information, such as in a company's annual financial report. The XBRL standard is developed and published by XBRL International, Inc. (XII).
XBRL is a standards-based way to communicate and exchange business information between business systems. These communications are defined by metadata set out in taxonomies, which capture the definition of individual reporting concepts as well as the relationships between concepts and other semantic meaning. Information being communicated or exchanged is provided within an XBRL instance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “eXtensible Business Reporting Language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.