I've got to write an app to allow someone to enter financial
information, which will then be stored in SQL and then produce an XBRL
compliant document.

I have the taxonomy from the company it has to be submitted to - but
what now? where do I start? I've not done a huge amount of work with
XML.

App will be written in C#.NET

Help Please!?

>
> I've got to write an app to allow someone to enter financial
> information, which will then be stored in SQL and then produce an XBRL
> compliant document.
>
> I have the taxonomy from the company it has to be submitted to - but
> what now? where do I start? I've not done a huge amount of work with
> XML.
>
> App will be written in C#.NET
>
> Help Please!?
>


What exactly do you want?

A conceptual description?

1.) Provide a form with text boxes to user who will enter the data
2.) Understand where to insert that data into XBRL file(respecting that
company taxonomy off course)
3.) Complete the rest (proper format of the file and submitting procedure)

haha, I guess I was vague

I can create the input app fine and saving the data to SQL no probs -
I'm looking for a rough idea of getting info back out and placed into
an XML file that will be validated against the taxonomy - are there
any example out there or what's the best tools to use? I'm using
VS2008, SQL2005

I would recommend a look at Altova's tools called XMLSpy and MapForce.
As you have your data already in the database you could use MapForce
to create a mapping into your taxonomy. You can also generate C# code
which will do the mapping. IIRC there should also be some samples
about MapForce and XBRL mappings.

HTH,
Stefan

> haha, I guess I was vague
>
> I can create the input app fine and saving the data to SQL no probs -
> I'm looking for a rough idea of getting info back out and placed into
> an XML file that will be validated against the taxonomy - are there
> any example out there or what's the best tools to use? I'm using
> VS2008, SQL2005




Questions:

1.) Which tools (programming languages) have you used so far to
manipulate(create/save) XML document?
2.) How experienced you are with XML?
3.) At this stage, which is your primary concern - the "technical" validity
of XML document or the "logical" (data inserted on right positions)?