Patent ID: 7415482

Claim:
A computer program that is resident on a computer readable medium and facilitates association of a business taxonomy attribute with business data in a computer document comprising: a utility configured to manage communications with a business document production application, generate a business document that contains business data and display a business document that contains business data on a computer display device; an extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) taxonomy attribute linker configured to provide a user of the computer program with an ability to associate an XBRL attribute of a business taxonomy with a business document to produce a marked up business document; a validation manager for validating a marked up business document to produce a validated, marked up business document; an export manager for processing a validated, marked up business document to produce an XBRL instance document; wherein, said XBRL taxonomy attribute linker, validation manager, and export manager are each operable by the user of the computer program during a common program session.