You might want to write this in Scheme and supply it as a Gnucash exporter?
-derek Zach Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have spent a couple hours learning some XML and hacked an XSL file to > convert from a GnuCash Account file to a Gnumeric spreadsheet. It is > very rough at this point. Downloaded it at > http://www.neurosoft.org/gnucash/gnumeric_xsl , or get it from the > attachment. > > > A couple of obvious (and major) problems: > 1. Gnucash does not define its Namespaces properly. For XSL to work, you > have to edit the Account file, and change <gnc-v2> to: > <gnc-v2 xmlns:act="http://www.gnucash.org/act"; > xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/gnc"; > xmlns:trn="http://www.gnucash.org/trn"; > xmlns:ts="http://www.gnucash.org/ts"; > xmlns:split="http://www.gnucash.org/split";> > > These are just bogus values. The Gnucash project needs to properly > define the namespaces; this has been mentioned before on this list. > > 2. I haven't been able to properly connect the Account Name and the > Account ID within the spreadsheet. This causes the transactions to be > listed by the ID instead of by the name. > > --- > > To use with Apache Xalan, execute > $ java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in Accounts.gnucash -xsl > gnumeric.xsl -out Accounts.gnumeric > > > --- > > Suggestions/Criticism/etc welcome. > > I'm doing this for my own benefit, but I would like to know if this > would be useful to the project. I'm curious if this might be better > implemented as a SXSL (scheme XSL: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html) > > > thanks, > Zach Garner > > p.s. I sent a similar message little while back, but it apparently > didn't make it because the maintainer is behind. (that's OK though!) > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
