XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language.
It is an emerging XML-based standard to interchange financial information.
XBRL differs from most XML based standards by the fact that XBRL documents (instances) require specific parsers to check full compliance of instance with its corresponding taxonomy.
Historical US company SEC filings information can be downloaded from Edgar Online. News distribution companies such as PR Newswire provide services to listed companies to allow them to distribute their financial information in XBRL format.
External links
The official XBRL web site is www.xbrl.org
On top of this there are several jurisdictional websites;
Last updated: 07-30-2005 00:15:17
