On 31 Jul 1999, Rob Browning wrote:
> Jim Easter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 4) There are many ways to innocently corrupt a gnucash .xac file so
> > that the application cannot read it and crashes on the attempt. The
> > .xac file is not ASCII, nor is it readable (and thus repairable) by
> > any other application I know. If a script or extension made it
> > possible to read and recover the file, I would then feel that I
> > could enter a bunch of data without fear of losing it.
> > Additionally, I could then export and import files from, e.g.,
> > gnumeric. Am I missing something -- is there a built-in way to
> > export or import between .xac and some neutral file format? Has
> > anyone out there written a plug-in?
>
> In the current CVS tree, I have some code that you can call from the
> extensions menu that'll spit out a gnucash file as text in a format
> that it would be trivial to write a parser for (though it hasn't been
> done yet) [1]. The data is written out as scheme forms that are
> guaranteed to have all the data (strings, etc.) properly escaped so
> that sucking it back in later is just a matter of using scheme's
> reader in conjunction with a *very* simple loop.
>
> It hasn't been heavily tested or reviewed, but getting aroung to
> writing the parser and making this format available at least via an
> import/export menu item should be on our to-do list.
Dia and Gnumeric use libxml to store/retrieve their data in files. Maybe
it should be considered for gnucash too...
alex.
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