The third key component takes care of XBRL Rendering. Stylesheets can be used to transform XBRL data into formats such as HTML, RTF, PDF, and Word 2007 (OOXML). The problem is that the XSL vocabulary was not created for XBRL and does not have the capacity to understand the relationships that are represented in taxonomy documents.
StyleVision 2009 is a graphical style sheet designer for rendering output in these formats based on XML, databases, and now XBRL taxonomies. To create a XBRL report, users are able to drag and drop a taxonomy financial statement onto the design pane as an XBRL table and then use StyleVision's graphical interface to format style sheets for simultaneous output in these various formats.
The bottom line is that if you have to put together XBRL documents, you have a choice of doing the manual hand-coded way which not only takes more time, but is not conducive to accurate validation. Or you can use a set of tools that can not only facilitate the job to make it easier, but provide validation as well as streamline your workflow.
The Altova MissionKit 2009 provides you all of these tools in one consistent interface. It will help you take advanced and automate the way that financial data is captured, shared, reported, and analyzed. If you want to take control of your XBRL data management, then I highly recommend the Altova MissionKit 2009.
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