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This week, I received an interesting task: dusting off a legacy #Java application. The application analyzes specific #XML files in proprietary format. I know XML doesn’t sound sexy to junior developers, but it has an amazing benefit. One can validate a file against a grammar. Such grammar is called an

Slow Horses screen grab, gotta love it.
#XML #SlowHorses

The last two months I have been typing a relatively short introduction to XBRL from a technical point of view. The need to knows of the XML underneath, how a taxonomy is built and how to create an instance.
Intended audience: developers that have to deal with XBRL.
You can grab a copy here: #xbrl #xml #developers

I've spent more than half-day trying to validate my #XML against an #XSD schema v1.1 in #Java 🤯
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