XBRL - Business Reporting Language

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:08:55 +1000 (EST)


Gary Bickford writes:
 > This appears to be something of relevance to the long term GNUcash
 > reporting direction.  The page
 > (http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html) on which the following
 > appears goes on to some length on this topic, with several other links.
 >  This is an excerpt.  The specification referred to is "Extensible
 > Business Reporting Language (XBRL) Specification"
 > (http://www.xbrl.org/TR/2000-07-31/XBRL-2000-07-31.htm)
 > 
 > And, (surprise!!) there is a website - http://www.xbrl.com.
 > GB
 > 

Thanks for the heads-up on this - I read about it in the newspaper
today, and it sounds like something we should keep an eye on.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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