Data Type Registry Approved

At their meeting on 22nd February 2011 The International Steering Committee of XBRL International approved the Data Type Registry as a RECOMMENDATION. An initial set of datatypes were also published in the registry. 

The XBRL Specification provides a set of data types that may appear in XBRL instances. Broadening use of XBRL is leading to the proposal of new, non-standard data types which have common and useful semantics. The XBRL Data Type Registry (DTR) is a public, online listing of these non-standard data types.  It provides structured information about their purpose, usage, and any intended impact on XBRL instance validation. 

For more information please visit http://www.xbrl.org/DTR

Thanks

Hugh 

Hugh Wallis
Director of Technical Standards
XBRL International Inc.
hughwallis@xbrl.org