XBRL International Announces Release of HTML Version of XBRL 2.1 SPEC

(5 March 2013) -- S4S Conversion of the XBRL 2.1 Specification approved to Recommendation

XBRL International is pleased to announce that the XBRL Standards Board, at the request of the XBRL Base Spec Working Group, has approved as RECOMMENDATION this 2013-02-20 edition of the XBRL 2.1 specification.  This edition incorporates no new errata, but has been reformatted in HTML for readability and accessibility.

The conversion of the XBRL Specification v2.1 from its old format was a substantial amount of work which will now allow future errata releases to be produced quickly and consistently. The use of HTML for the normative text brings this core specification into line with more recent publications from XBRL International.

This work was contributed to the XBRL community by staff at CoreFiling, as part of their ongoing contributions to the XBRL suite of standards.  CoreFiling considers this contribution to be valuable particularly for use in the evolving European regulatory environment.

The HTML version of the 2.1 Spec can be found on the xbrl.org website on the Recommendations page, or directly at the following location:  http://xbrl.org/Specification/XBRL-2.1/REC-2003-12-31/XBRL-2.1-REC-2003-12-31+corrected-errata-2013-02-20.html.