Sections

Within an archive, facts are organized in components, and these components are grouped in sections. In a fiscal filing, for example, there is very often a section for a balance sheet, for an income statement, etc.

Sections contain the metadata (report elements) used and shared by all its components.

A section may only have one component (which happens quite often), or several.

Sections are identified with a URI.

API Reference

We provide a complete reference to the REST API for sections.

Spreadsheet analogy

Sections can be seen as sheets of a spreadsheet.

XBRL terminology

In XBRL, a section corresponds to an extended link role. The section URI is the URI of this extended link role.

In each section (extended link role), presentation networks should fulfill a consistency requirement in the way they organize report elements.

Parent-child relationships between report elements are only allowed as follows (column headers are parents, row headers are children).