XBRL

XBRL is the core class and it represents a single taxonomy file and its related link bases. See the XBRL class in the source code reference help.

At the time of writing only the label, definition and presentation link bases are processed. It is left for future enhancement to add calculation, formula and reference link base processing. These are not needed in the first instance because the focus is on reporting.

Calculation and formula linkbases are less relevant in the context of this project because instance documents already include any relevant aggregate values in addition to the detail data values. If these documents have been validated, users can be sure the aggregate values are correct.

Elements, contexts, units, imports and other details are read from the schema file of each taxonomy and processed. Related presentation, label and definition linkbases are also processed at compile time to access locators, arcs, roles and arc roles.