by Philip Allen | Apr 27, 2021 | Inline XBRL, Quality
1. Well-formedness To be machine-readable, XML has to be well formed. Attributes have to be enclosed in quotes; certain characters have to be escaped; all opening tags have to be matched with closing tags. A human reader may recognise easily that a closing tag has...
by Philip Allen | Apr 9, 2021 | Quality, Taxonomy, XBRL
The invention of schemas to provide formal definition of the contents of XML documents was one of the most important innovations accompanying the creation of the World Wide Web. For the first time, it was possible to develop a generic data validator which was...
