In the EDGAR world, inline CSS can be used to style documents. However, CSS style sheets are not allowed. I recently ran into a case where document needed to be published on a system which was just the opposite — CSS classes are ok, but inline styles are verboten. A quick Legato script saved may hours of work by translating the inline styles to a style sheet.
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LDC #161: Quickly Adding CSS Classes to an Existing HTML Document
Friday, November 22. 2019
XBRL US Releases Taxonomy Development Handbook for Public Comment
On November 19th, XBRL US released the Taxonomy Development Handbook for public review. The handbook is a comprehensive guide that directs regulators, industry experts, and businesses through a practical roadmap to building high quality data standards with XBRL. This freely available, foundational document takes readers through the necessary stages of standards development, including: 1) building the appropriate transport data model, 2) assessing project scope, including use cases and requirements, 3) establishing a governance structure, 4) documenting the standards program, and 5) the step-by-step mechanics of building the taxonomy. The handbook also contains an introduction to the XBRL financial data standard, templates to guide developers in documenting the taxonomy, and case studies of XBRL as a method of improving data reporting in various industries.
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LDC #160: Securing Log Files with MD5
Last month, we discussed logging user submissions to the SEC in our blog post LDC 154. Well, thinking more about this, I realized it was probably not a good idea to not secure the log file. If someone makes a mistake, and files a document they shouldn’t, they could simply alter the log to show different times or users filing the document, and there is no record of it. A malicious user could easily just change what the log says! This is unacceptable and easily within our power to fix. To do so, we’re going to use a common function, the MD5 hash function.
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Friday, November 01. 2019
LDC #159:Validating HTML Indents and Margins With Legato
I had an interesting issue crop up this week: a client had a file that had a 21 inch indent on a paragraph, causing problems when the file was printed to PDF. When GoFiler converts your Word file to HTML, if there are a lot of spaces or tabs on a line, it can cause GoFiler to interpret it as having a large indent level. Normally this isn’t a big deal, but if the indent ends up as large as this, it can cause rendering issues. So, I was asked if there was a way we could test for this, and figured it would be an interesting problem for a blog post.
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