I don't have any XBRL examples, but this does bring up a good discussion point. There are any number of "vertical" XML schemas out there, XBRL being just one of them. Often times, these have been developed purely as an interchange format. Mapping these formats to behavior when trying to use them in an SOA can be a challenging exercise. Personally, I think this creates debate around the differences between a message interchange versus a service invocation. A message interchange can be solely about data, without preference to how the data will be used, while a service invocation contains some aspect of behavior- I want this action taken using this data.
I will talk to some colleagues about XBRL and see if we've had any experience with it. -tb On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Gervas Douglas wrote: > I have been doing some research recently into XBRL of late, as you > will see from some of the entries in my little EBR Group > (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/enhanced-business-reporting/). > I am particularly interested in XBRL in SOA strucutures. For those > of you not familiar with XBRL, it is essentially an implementation of > XML for business and financial reporting, the idea being to provide > commonality of semantics and metadata. Do any of you have experience > of it being used as in effect a data transport in a SOA structure, > perhaps in an intra-group context? If so I would be most grateful to > hear of any examples. > > Gervas > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
