XBRL Validator

XMLSpy® 2010 and AltovaXML® 2010 support validation of XBRL to ensure accuracy and compliance of XBRL filings.

XMLSpy® 2010 includes a new engine that supports validation of documents created based on XBRL 2.1 as well as XBRL Dimensions 1.0, which is an extension of XBRL. This allows you to view and analyze XBRL taxonomies and also to validate XBRL instance documents against taxonomies. XBRL linkbases can also be validated against their associated schema file. When viewing XBRL documents, you can choose between XMLSpy's Text View or Grid View (shown below), which provides a graphical, easy to navigate representation of the document's content.

xbrl validator

Standard XML editors are not sufficient for working with XBRL because they cannot process the normalization and semantic properties that XBRL adds to the XML specification. The added XBRL functionality in XMLSpy makes it the only fully featured XML editor on the market with the capacity to understand the multiple relations and content validation that makes XBRL such a powerful language for explicit and transparent financial reporting.

The XBRL validator is included in XMLSpy® 2010 Enterprise Edition, XMLSpy® 2010 Professional Edition, and XMLSpy® 2010 Standard Edition. XMLSpy Standard and Professional Editions support XBRL validation, while XMLSpy Enterprise Edition also supports graphical XBRL taxonomy editing.

XBRL support is also provided in AltovaXML, giving developers a powerful XBRL validation engine to use in their applications, royalty-free.