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presentation. As shown in this example, XHTML is merely to make an HTML
document well formatted and compatible with XML.
8.13 XBRL
eXtensible business reporting language (XBRL) is an extension of XML that has
been defined specifically for business accounting and financial reports. Under XML,
tags are applied to items of business accounting and financial data so that they can be
read and processed by computers. It enables unique identifying tags to be applied to
items of business data. For example, the <tax> tag would identify the data of tax
in a business document. e true power of XBRL is more than simple identifiers. As
XML can provide links to relative information about the data item, the XBRL can
link the business ...