Hi All, Has Anybody using this forum used the XBRL feature in Attain. I have a query on this. When the XBRL mapping is done and the corresponding report is extracted using the export feature, the output file created is in an XML format (so far so good…). However when I open the extracted file in Internet Explorer (XML, I assume should be readable with Internet explorer), the output which I get is all gibberish ?? How do I make this file readable at one click. I would understand from the XBRL white paper that the output file is directly capable of uploading on the Website for Stock Exchanges, Stake holders etc to view the format in the XBRL format. Any suggestions ? Cheers,
What IE does is just to display the XML tags/contents. E.g. data is displayed in what is known as XML tree format. If you want to have it in “readable”/table format then you have to use/write a parser that interprets this tags. XBRL by itself is only a standard of representing financial data in XML format. Usualy organisations that receive these XBRLs have XML parsers which process the file and then extract or represent the data in a readable form. It can be .html, Excel File or whatever other format.
The thing which you call ‘gibberish’ is output data which is structured according to xml syntax. For reading such a data you need to develope special type of documents, which contains structure of required output, something like doctype definition. Go to www.w3c.org for more information.
Hi Nikola and Arthur, Thanks for your replies. This means that, to have the file in readable format in IE, would require two clicks(activities) and not one. Cheers,