Formula offers lightweight XBRL formula support.
It is lightweight in many ways:
- It depends on the OIM (Open Information Model), so on aspects instead of XBRL XML syntax
- It does not depend on XPath, and compilation of XPath expressions
- It should use a lightweight (case-class based) taxonomy model (in the future)
- It can be used for learning about (performance of) XBRL formulas
- It can be used for playing with XBRL formulas and trying them out, without using any XBRL XML linkbase syntax
- It runs in the browser too
- It also offers a lower level of abstraction, in which formula processing is made entirely explicit, on top of aspects