XBRL taxonomy and instance validator

This tool has been built to assist in the development of valid XBRL (version 2) Taxonomies and Instances. An XBRL Taxonomy is a particular style of XML Schema and must conform to the W3C specification of 2 May 2001 - defining the Schema for Schemas.

Specify just an XBRL Taxonomy document (as a .xsd file) and a report on the validity of the Taxonomy will be generated and returned. If you also specify an XBRL Instance document it will be validated against the Taxonomy, and any others you specify - either from the list of commom Taxonomies, or by supplying other files as required.

The XBRL Taxonomy and Instance Validator provides a simple web interface for doing XML Schema checking of the Taxonomy against the XBRL schemas and the XSDL Schema for Schemas. It will also perform Schema validation of XBRL Instances against given Taxonomies. If there are further public taxonomies you would like to see available here, please do let us know. For generating reports this service simply uses Xerces-J 1.4.3 and a pool of W3C and XBRL base schemas.

Further information on XBRL and XBRL Taxonomies can be found at XBRL.org . More information on XML Schemas is available from the W3C .