When the SEC needs a flexible, rule-based rendering engine for interactive data, who do they call?
In July 2008, the SEC put out a “request for proposal” (RFP) to solicit software vendor’s help to create a “rendering engine” that can present the XBRL-based financial statements in an easy to read, attractive format. As stated in the RFP, “The commission proposal views interactive data as an important way to increase access to information in the financial marketplace. The ability to accurately generate human-readable XBRL documents from raw XBRL content in EDGAR submission is central to this work.”
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