Discussion Digest, Vol 106, Issue 9

[Igor Zubiaurre]

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> From: Marcos Marado mindboosternoori at gmail.com
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> * is there any free software at all supporting (even if only partially) the
>  XBRL standard?


In january 2009 CENATIC wrote a study on free software XBRL tools. It is
availabe here:
http://www.cenatic.es/publicaciones/category/5-proyectos.

Take the conclusions with a pinch of salt. They are 2.5 years old.

Hope it helps.

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Conclusions

 XBRL open source initiatives are scarce.

 xBReeze, from UBMATRIX and Batavia XBRL Java Library (BXJL) are the most
complete solutions, in terms of technical criteria,

and their XBRL specification support and the XBRL specific features
provided.

 The scope of the study does not include the edition and creation of
taxonomies and instance documents. One important feature

on processing XBRL is the validation engine, where both xBReeze and BXJL
libraries includes. The BXJL remarks on XBRL

validation, but their licence is not truly open source, dependent upon some
type of agreement with Batavia.

 The development which is most focused on an open source community is the
XBRLApi.org project, promoted by Galexy. Despite

the lack of some XBRL components in the beta version it could be extended
with new features and components.

 Although none of the tools evaluated provides all of documentation, ease
of use, ease of set up, functionality and performance to

the standard of other open source technologies, the combination of these
libraries offers a sufficient base for the development of

an XBRL service platform or suite for processing and interchange of XBRL
documents.

 As the managing and accounting software providers could be interested in
the use of any resulting work they should be invited to

participate in the initiative to create and evolve these open source
libraries.
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