"Soon all companies will report financials in a programming language called XBRL that will allow you and me to slice and dice numbers like never before." -SNIP- "The idea behind XBRL, short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is simple: Instead of treating numbers in financial reports like dumb text on a page, it assigns a "bar code" tag to each number. So no matter what company you are looking at, the same tag will flag the figures for sales or gross margins in a master database at the SEC." -SNIP- ""For the first time, instantly, you'll be able to compare...