Arelle/Arelle — pull request #12 by regisd (2011-10-11 18:04:32+00:00)
Title: Dts packager

Herm,

This is a new feature (available both in command line and GUI) that allows the creation of a zip archive that contains the full DTS.

The use case is to make more robust the publication of a taxonomy, continent all sufficient and necessary files:

* it is possible to maintain only one taxonomy and yet release several different consistent zip files, you only need one entry point for each
* the zip is cleaner, it only contains what is need for this entry point (and no uncessary XML, bakup file or whatever else)
*thanks to arelle existing features, you can ensure that the zip contains a valid taxonomy

On more technical aspects

* only local files will be archived in the zip, any import to a http resource will be ignored
* right now, the zip structure is flat ; but it should obviously keep the hierarchy

Hope this helps and will be useful to others