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The XBRL Taxonomy Builder tool is a simple tool to develop XBRL taxonomies from Excel files.

The XBRL Taxonomy Builder is divided in two parts:

The first part is the taxonomy content. This is composed by the data dictionary, the relationships between the elements in the data dictionary and the resources like references and labels. All that information is stored in Excel sheets in a comprehensive format that allows non IT users to introduce, change and review it without deep knowledge about XBRL. For example, the definition of XBRL dimensions using excel templates is according to the business model designed by the Bank of Italy for the COREP taxonomies (Matrix Schema). That model is also used inside BdI for the definition of multidimensional databases.

The second part is a language for creating the DTS (Discoverable Taxonomy Set). The language is used to specify the modular structure of the files that will constitute the DTS. The language contains references to the content (data dictionary, labels, references, presentation links, calculation links and dimensions...). The language can be used to specify different modular approaches for the same content in the Excel sheet.

The Excel Taxonomy Builder accelerates the process of creating an XBRL taxonomy because it eliminates the barriers for new comers. You'll learn XBRL just by using Excel. Taxonomy development has never been something so simple.

At the same time. Taxonomy Builder allows the creation of high quality taxonomies because the revision of the taxonomy content can be executed by non XBRL experts that normally don't know XBRL at all.

The XBRL Taxonomy Builder is an external tool to Excel that interprets the DTS creation language and access the Excel content in order to create the taxonomy set

This taxonomy builder has been used by the Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros de Chile in order to create an extension of the IFRS 2006 taxonomy in order to make it corresponds to the IAS published in the 2007 Bound Volume.