Monday, April 9, 2012

XBRl Formula - Aspects

The defiition of what Aspects are, useful liust to have when reading the specifications:

XBRL facts are not just values. They are supported by a wide range of additional information that provides the information necessary to interpret the values contained by XBRL facts.

An aspect is defined as one part of the additional information about an XBRL fact.

http://xbrl.org/Specification/variables/PER-2011-10-19/variables-PER-2011-10-19.html#sec-aspects


There are a number of different ways that the additional information about an XBRL fact can be separated into a set of aspects. For example, the entity identification information could be treated as a single aspect or it could be treated as an entity identification scheme aspect and an entity identification value aspect. More significantly, the content of a segment or scenario can be treated as a single aspect or it can be broken down into a potentially large number of aspects.\

http://xbrl.org/Specification/variables/PER-2011-10-19/variables-PER-2011-10-19.html#sec-aspect-model

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