On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:09:02 +0300, the world broke into rejoicing as
Alexandru Harsanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 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...
XML is reasonable as an export/import format.
It is not a good format for things that involve any sort of random
access *within the file.*
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