Specifications - Requirements
Requirements are statements by the XBRL Community which will form the basis for the creation of specifications. They will generally be issued first as Public Working Drafts for discussion and refinement. After careful review and agreement by the Community on their content, they will gain Recommendation status.
Recommendations
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Formula requirements
These requirements are available on the same page as the Formula Specification itself.
Public Working Draft
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XBRL Streaming Extensions Module 1.0 Requirements March 6, 2013
Requirements - HTML
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Versioning Requirements March 17, 2010
These requirements were updated with the most recent release of the Base and Concept Base modules as Candidate Recommendations
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Rendering Requirements July 24, 2007
The Rendering Working Group has issued the first Public Working Draft of a set of requirements for a method to provide information necessary to render XBRL instances in a human readable form. Feedback from the public on this document is eagerly sought.
Requirements - normative RTF version (contained in a 5MB zipped file)
Requirements - non-normative HTML version - much smaller
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Dimensional Taxonomy Requirements June 21, 2005
This document describes the business requirements for taxonomy authors to define and restrict dimensional information that instance authors may use in the segment and scenario elements of the context element of XBRL instance documents. This requirements document has been satisfied by the Dimensions Specification published on the Specification Recommendations page.
Requirements - RTF - Normative version
Requirements - HTML
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Rule Base Requirements
Withdrawn -- superseded by the Formula Requirements listed above.
Superseded Work
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Function Requirements June 21, 2005
This has been withdrawn, having been superseded. It is included here for completeness and for those who may have a need to reference it.
