XBRLS

XBRLS (Extensible Business Reporting Language - Simple) is an application profile or a dialect of XBRL.

XBRLS is 100% XBRL compliant. The goal of XBRLS is to maximize XBRL's benefits, reduce costs of implementation, and maximize the functionallity and effectiveness of XBRL. XBRLS is poised to enable the non-XBRL expert to create both XBRL metadata and XBRL reports in a simple and convenient manner. At the same time, it seeks to improve the usability of XBRL, the interoperability among XBRL-based solutions and to reduce software development costs.

This dialect has been proposed by Rene van Egmond and Charlie Hoffman who is the initial creator of XBRL.

XBRLS Architecture

*Uses no tuples.
*Only uses the segment element of the instance context and disallows the use of the scenario element.
*Allows only XBRL dimensional information as content for the segment element in the instance context. Furthermore, it requires that every concept (member, primary item) participates in a hypercube and that all hypercubes are closed.
*Allows no uses of simple or complex typed members within XBRL Dimensions.
*XBRLS never uses the precision attribute, always uses the decimals attribute.
*Requires that every measure exists in at least one XBRL Dimension.

XBRL components not used in XBRLS

Links

* [http://xbrl.squarespace.com/xbrls/ XBRLS]
* [http://xbrl.squarespace.com/storage/xbrls/XBRLS-How-simpler-can-be-better-2008-03-11.pdf XBRLS: how a simpler XBRL can make a better XBRL]
* [http://xbrl.squarespace.com//storage/xbrls/XBRLS-ComprehensiveExample-2008-04-18.zip Comprehensive Example]
* [http://www.ubmatrix.com/company/innovation.htm XBRLS - XBRL Made Easy]
* [http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/04/23/an-interview-with-charlie-hoffman Data Interactive: An Interview with Charlie Hoffman]