On Wed, 10 May 2000 21:37:06 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 10 May 2000 22:10:37 -0500, Christopher Browne
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >> someone said, "Well, I guess it is okay if there is a way I can
> >> export to text, and import elsewhere. I just _hate_ it when
> >> someone thinks they can hold _my data_ hostage."
>
> Christopher> It seems to me that this is still the most significant
> Christopher> MAJOR problem with GnuCash at this point in time.
>
> Christopher> There _NEEDS_ to be a data format, possibly the "text
> Christopher> export," that can both be exported _AND IMPORTED_.
>
> is XML such a bad thing?
I never even _indirectly_ implied anything bad about XML.
It seems to me that XML could be a nearly ideal format for the
purpose; it does, in serialized form, ahppen to be a text format,
and thus fits _perfectly_ with the comments I made.
The libxml integration work would involve additional work; if it
proved easier to use the Guile parser to parse input data, that
would establish good cause to pick that instead.
--
`When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just
stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for
free*".' -- Linus Torvalds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
