What are the common issues with the rendering of XBRL data on the SEC Viewer?
The XBRL Standard does not provide any formatting control for rendering the data and valid XBRL tagged data may look different depending on which viewer is used to render it. For example, items with bold, italics, underlining, colors, fonts and other types of formatting can be adjusted by the software viewer used to render the data. Most Common issues noted with the SEC Viewer rendering: • Truncates numerical values and adds text rendering (USD $) “in Thousands except per share data” • Currency sign will only display on the first and last monetary line items of the financial report • Period data in numerical form 1/01/2010 – 3/31/2010 render as text “Three Months Ended” “March 31, 2010” XBRL does provide a means to indicate the preferred ordering of line items in rows, statements and Dimensional Segments. However, the Viewer may ignore the preferred presentation information and display lines, statement table notes and segments in a different order (alphabetically, for example).
