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Specifications - Recommendations
A Recommended Specification is a work that represents consensus within the XBRL International community and has its stamp of approval.  The International Steering Committee considers that the ideas or technology specified by a Recommendation are appropriate for widespread deployment to promote the mission of XBRL International.  The current Base Specification is 2.1 and all users are strongly encouraged to use this latest version.  Versions earlier than 2.1 are no longer supported or maintained by XBRL International:  no errata corrections will be issued for them.
  XBRL 2.1   December 31, 2003
A new edition of the 2.1 Specification with errata corrections was issued on 2 July 2008.  This should be used in preference to old editions, but for reference the latter can be found on the Old Editions page. 
RTF  - Normative version 
HTML version   
DOC version with redlined changes showing errata corrections 
ZIP - All versions including schema files
The schemas for this edition can be found at:
http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xbrl-instance-2003-12-31.xsd
http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xbrl-linkbase-2003-12-31.xsd
http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xl-2003-12-31.xsd
http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xlink-2003-12-31.xsd
  2.1 Conformance Suite (Candidate Recommendation 4)   July 2, 2008
The XBRL 2.1 Conformance Suite provides more than 200 tests to verify that applications process XBRL 2.1 documents correctly.  The normative version of the suite is available as a downloadable zip file.  To enable testing using a fixed web location, the contents of the zip are also available in the directory www.xbrl.org/2008/XBRL-CONF-CR4-2008-07-02, please see www.xbrl.org/2008/XBRL-CONF-CR4-2008-07-02/xbrl.xml for a file listing.  Users should note that this is a non-normative location and the latest versions of tests are NOT guaranteed always to be available.  Users are encouraged to download the zip file for routine testing.  In the event of any conflict between the contents the downloadable zip and the files at the location above, users should treat the contents of the downloadable zip file as the correct version.

For developers who prefer to work in a "Subversion" environment, the conformance suite is also provided (non-normatively) in a public "read-only" Subversion repository located at http://publicsvn.xbrl.org/svn/public/base-specification-conformance/2008-07-02/

RTF - Normative summary document
HTML summary document
Full Test Suite zip
  Dimensions 1.0   September 18, 2006
A new edition of the Dimensions 1.0 Specification with errata corrections was issued on 7 September 2009.  This should be used in preference to old editions, but for reference the latter can be found on the Old Editions page. 

The Dimensions 1.0 Specification is a modular, optional extension to the XBRL 2.1 Specification which allows XBRL taxonomy authors to define and restrict dimensional information for instance authors to use in the segment and scenario elements of the context element of XBRL instance documents.  Its architecture is such that any XBRL artefacts (instances and their Discoverable Taxonomy Sets) that conform to this specification also conform to the XBRL 2.1 Specification and may be processed without error by any processor that is capable of correctly processing XBRL artefacts, even if those processors are unaware of this modular extension. 
RTF - Normative Version
HTML Version
RTF - Redlined to 2006-09-18 version
schema file xbrldi-2006.xsd
schema file xbrldt-2005.xsd
FAQ on Specification
  Dimensions 1.0 Conformance Suite (Candidate Recommendation)   October 6, 2009
The Dimensions 1.0 conformance suite provides a set of tests to verify that applications have correctly implemented the Dimensions Specification 1.0.  It sets out a range of error conditions which should be reported by dimensional processors which are based on the specification.  The normative version of the suite is available as a downloadable zip file.  To enable testing using a fixed web location, the contents of the zip are also available in the directory www.xbrl.org/2009/XDT-CONF-CR4-2009-10-06/, please see www.xbrl.org/2009/XDT-CONF-CR4-2009-10-06/xdt.xml for a file listing.  Users should note that this is a non-normative location and the latest versions of tests are NOT guaranteed always to be available.  Users are encouraged to download the zip file for routine testing.  In the event of any conflict between the contents the downloadable zip and the files at the location above, users should treat the contents of the downloadable zip file as the correct version.

This conformance suite reflects all errata corrections to 2009-09-07

RTF - Normative summary document 
HTML summary document
Full Test Suite zip
  Formula Specification 1.0   June 22, 2009
A suite of specifications related to formulas was RECOMMENDED by XBRL International on 2009-06-22 

Readers are advised to read the Overview Document first to understand how all the components of the package interrelate.

Clickable Diagram of the related specs

Formula Requirements - RTF
Formula Specification - HTML
Validation Requirements - RTF
Complete Package (including conformance suite) - ZIP
Boolean Filters - HTML
Concept Filters - HTML
Consistency Assertions - HTML
Dimension Filters - HTML
Entity Filters - HTML
Existence Assertions - HTML
General Filters - HTML
Generic Labels - HTML
Generic References - HTML
Implicit Filters - HTML
Match Filters - HTML
Period Filters - HTML
Relative Filters - HTML
Segment Scenario Filters - HTML
Tuple Filters - HTML
Unit Filters - HTML
Validation - HTML
Value Assertions - HTML
Value Filters - HTML
Variables - HTML

As part of this specification release the Generic Links and the Function Registry have also been RECOMMENDED. Please see below for these documents

The conformance suite associated with this RECOMMENDATION can be downloaded from the link below

Conformance Suite - ZIP

For developers who prefer to work in a "Subversion" environment, the conformance suite is also provided (non-normatively) in a public "read-only" Subversion repository located at http://publicsvn.xbrl.org/svn/public/formula-conformance/2009-06-22/

  Generic Links   June 22, 2009
The Generic Links Specification has been issued as part of the Formula Specification RECOMMENDATION.

For ease of access links to the relevant documents for the Generic Links Specification are provided here rather than with the Formula Specification.

Requirements - RTF
Specification - HTML

The relevant conformance suite tests for the Generic Links Specification form part of the overall Formula conformance suite. Specifically they are those in the "70000 Linkbase" folder.
  Registry   June 22, 2009

This is a set of specifications produced by the Formula Working Group that defines a framework for registries and conformance suites. The initial focus is on a Functions Registry to support the Formula Specification.

The relevant documents may be accessed from the links below.

Registry Specification - .HTML 
Conformance Functions Specification - .HTML
Functions Registry Overview - .RTF
Conformance Specification - .HTML
Function Definitions - .HTML

The function registry itself is at http://xbrl.org/functionregistry/functionregistry.xml

  XBRL 2.0a   November 15, 2002
Version 2.0a is identical to 2.0 except for technical corrections in Schema files.
DOC - document
PDF - document
ZIP - all files
  XBRL 2.0   December 14, 2001
DOC - document
PDF - document
ZIP - all files
  XBRL 1.0   July 31, 2000
DOC - document
PDF - document
ZIP - all files

   

 
 
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