Does anyone have an idea of how to integrate XBRL with Drupal? According to wikipedia...
XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is freely available, market-driven, open, global standard for exchanging business information. XBRL allows information modeling and the expression of semantic meaning commonly required in business reporting. XBRL is XML-based. It uses the XML syntax and related XML technologies such as XML Schema, XLink, XPath, and Namespaces to articulate this semantic meaning. One use of XBRL is to define and exchange financial information, such as a financial statement. The XBRL Specification is developed and published by XBRL International, Inc. (XII).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL
My search for "XBRL" on drupal.org yielded only one hit :-(
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Eric
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Comments
Many XML schemas based topical languages -
Yes, there are many XML schema based languages to address many interoperability domains.
Such approach of interoperability at the logical data structure level is very common in Industry because it is more pragamatic, understandable and implementable that true semantic/ontological approaches.
I personnally consider XML schemas as a first step toward semantic approach by addressing the logical, only appropriate level where machines can exchange complex data structures in a determinsitic way.
Semantic is a higher level that is normally addressed by technologies such as RDF, OWL while semantics and logical descriptions can be linked by repository management such as ISO11179.
My impression is that XBLR, developped by IFRS for the huge, critical and very operational financial domain took a full XSD approach by associating semantics within data structures, making it readily usable by any software solution and programmer.
This is appropriate when canonical terminology and definitions are applicable, as this is precisely the case in Finance where a central organization can impose such taxonomies.
I am new in this group and very interested by the possibility to leverage Drupal plateform for managing copnsistently semantics and relevant data structures. Than could include (just a few ideas here):
- the ability to reference XSD schemas such as XBRL and many other business idoms
- the ability to reference OWL ontologies
- the ability to edit thoses schemas and ontologies within Drupal - for example by calling external editors such as Protégé or XMLSpy editors
- the ability to associate Drupal nodes and vocabularies to to the data structures, concepts, properties... in those schemas and ontologies to offer the linkage, documentation and versioning...
No clear ideas, but this is a quite unexplored domain where CMS might have to look at as knowledge element types expand from html pages and files to more expressive forms
To go back to the topic, has this group already discussed about XML Schema relevance for Drupal?