So after spending the morning researching, reading and evaluating various websites and software projects surrounding XBRL, I have to say I am most impressed with the work done by "Team ESU". Its amazing that a group of students, with no budget and a zillion other things to do can put together such a great example of how XBRL can work. I'm not the only one who recognizes their accomplishment, the SEC Chairman, Christopher Cox gave a speech on "The Promise of Interactive Data", during which he recognized the great work by these students.
I just left a note in their guest book about how I checked out their website and found it to be the one site that had XBRL information that I could understand! Not only do they show a working example of XBRL data manipulation, they also open their code for use in academic, non-commercial applications. Not all of it is open though, I couldn't find a link to one of the example xml documents used for importing into their php code, but with some digging I found it. :-)
