XBRL parsing in Natural - or what's best?

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Hello ev’ryone - I’m back with my fingers deep down in the … Natural code :smiley:

I am now working on OpenVMS (5.1.1 on Alpha so far) and have bumped into a new buzz word: XBRL, which I think a lot of people in EU will do too in the years to come.

I don’t know much about XBRL - I suppose it’s an enhancement of XML, with rules or forms included in its syntax? But in a Natural based back-end system, can I parse XBRL the same way as XML? XML should be doable on 5.1.1, but better on 6. How are things for XBRL?

Hope to get some bright ideas here - I have not found too many hits on softwareag.com other than some old lines about Tamino and EntireX.

Regards and salute,
Henrik

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Henrik,

Natural 5.1 does not support XBRL, it is not possible to parse XBRL like XML.

Regards,
Werner

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Thank you for your reply. I see it’s not mentioned in the newest NAT6.3.9 manual either (in case we change platform), so it doesn’t seem to be handled by Natural in near future.