It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> This is trivial to implement, and there are several posibilities.
>
> 1) the curent gnucash file format is actually a byte stream. If you
> want ascii, it would be straightforward to cut-n-paste the FileIO.C
> and replace all occurances of 'int i; write (fd, &i, 4);' with
> printf ("%d\n", i); This is almost trivial to do. Do it!
Of course, I forgot to mention:
If instead, you want to do XML, take e.g. the code
circa line 1745 of src/engine/FileIO.c, in the subroutine "writeSplit"
damount = xaccSplitGetShareAmount (split);
write( fd, &damount, sizeof(double) );
damount = xaccSplitGetSharePrice (split);
write( fd, &damount, sizeof(double) );
and replace it with:
damount = xaccSplitGetShareAmount (split);
printf("<gnc:amount>%f</gnc:amount>", damount);
damount = xaccSplitGetSharePrice (split);
printf("<gnc:price>%f</gnc:price>", damount);
Note by the way, that you've replaced 8 bytes with about 35 bytes
and so your files sizes will be 4x bigger than they are today.
gzip might help with this, at a cost of performance...
--linas
