It is learnt yesterday from the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) that through its official website , the SSE had provided all investors with the brief XBRL instance documents of the 1st quarter reports of 2006 of all the SSE-listed companies, realizing the side-by-side disclosure of XBRL instance documents and PDF documents.

According to an SSE official, after adopting XBRL instance documents, investors, using the software tool on the website, can obtain the first-hand formatted information disclosed by listed companies in periodical reports and conduct online multi-dimensional analysis. The event marks the development of the SSE's XBRL project from exploration and promotion to the application phase.

The specific operation is to download instance documents by clicking on the "XBRL Instance Document" button under the quick navigation bar on the left side of the SSE's homepage, extract data and make comparative analyses on financial data in different periods and of different listed companies by using the tool provided in the "XBRL Pilot Project" column under the quick navigation bar.