Answer specific questions you have in creating your taxonomy. Software developers who are creating applications which will work with XBRL taxonomies. Anyone who wishes to better understand XBRL instance documents and taxonomies so that they can work with the data inside these documents. This is a hands-on class. Notepad or some other manner of working with and viewing XML files.
Notepad is fine.
Microsoft VisualInterdev is even better. Some manner of viewing XML documents in a browser or in some other manner. The instructor will be using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for this purpose. The XBRL Taxonomy Builder should be downloaded and installed prior to this class. It will be made available the Friday prior to class and can be downloaded at any point after that time.