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Altova StyleVision® 2010 supports the creation of XSLT 1.0 / 2.0 stylesheets for rendering XBRL and XBRL Dimensions financial data into HTML, RTF, PDF, and Word 2007+ (OOXML).

Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an XML-based markup language for electronic transmission of business and financial data. With a brand new mandate from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and official support from European Parliament as well as the governments of Japan and China, XBRL aims to reduce costs through the elimination of time consuming and error-prone human interaction. The introduction of XBRL tags allows computers to process information independently, thus increasing the speed of data integration and exchange, while at the same time virtually eliminating data redundancy and quality issues.

The unique StyleVision design interface allows you to visually design stylesheets to render XBRL data simultaneously in online or print format(s) for presentation. An intelligent XBRL Table Wizard and flexible table design makes it easy to customize the output structure and content of financial reports. This enables organizations to share customized business data with business partners, stakeholders, and regulatory commissions, all based on XBRL taxonomy requirements. In addition, using StyleVision to create reusable templates for rendering your financial data means that you do not have to rekey presentation reports every quarter and can eliminate the errors and time delays associated with manual data entry.

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XBRL Design for Rendering

To create a straightforward XBRL report, you simply drag and drop a taxonomy financial statement onto the design pane as an XBRL table and then use StyleVision's graphical interface to format stylesheets for output in HTML, RTF, PDF, and Word 2007+ (OOXML). The XBRL Table Wizard makes it easy to customize the table structure and specify the concepts to include in the report.

In the case of the US-GAAP taxonomy, which provides, in addition to the hierarchical organization in its presentation linkbase, some best practices information on how to structure XBRL instances, you can simply select US-GAAP mode (see above) to have StyleVision automatically render the data according to this information.

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StyleVision lets you assign a sample XBRL instance to your taxonomy so that you can view the output rendered from your stylesheet at any stage in the design process.

Advanced Filtering with XPath

Because of the dimensional nature of XBRL data, it is often necessary to filter certain data out of presentation formats for human understanding or to present it in different views. StyleVision enables you to filter your design templates using XPath, an XML language for addressing parts of an XML document. This adds flexibility and adaptability to your designs and allows you to easily render different views of your XBRL data, in much the same way as the familiar Microsoft® Excel pivot table.

XPath filters are applied by right-clicking the template in the design and selecting Edit XPath Filter. This opens the XPath Builder where you can manually enter any valid predicated XPath expression or intuitively build one using the entry-helpers and intelligent auto-completion capabilities provided.

The ability to render data from XBRL reports based on template designs makes StyleVision® 2010 the ideal tool for automating the publication of your financial data. Download a free 30-day trial of StyleVision.