The Reuters Third Quarter Trading Statement financials available on this website have been produced from an XBRL formatted file, which is available in its raw form using the download link below. Please note you will need Microsoft Internet Explorer V5 or later to view the XML source data.

Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is largely an untested standard for government and industry in the United States, but a new modernization project at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. could give XBRL some momentum.

An emerging XML standard called XBRL, or eXtensible Business Reporting Language, promises to simplify the mechanics of working with financial statements. As XBRL catches on, analysts will be able to spend less time building intricate spreadsheets from scratch and more time scrutinizing companies' finances and accounting practices-which they're bound to be doing more of in the wake of the Enron scandal.

Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and EDGAR Online (Quote, Chart), an online distributor of Securities and Exchange Commission documents, are teaming up in order to help companies eliminate the need to re-enter financial data about public companies into Excel spreadsheets.