Hi, Yes you have the option to compress the XML or not.
Here is the info you are looking for: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/basics-files1.html https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_XML_format ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on behalf of Simon Roberts <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 1:11 PM To: Gnucash Users <[email protected]> Subject: [GNC] File format question Hi all, perhaps I should be asking this on the developer's list, but I figured that misdirecting here would be less disruptive / annoying than miscrirecting there. Please forgive me if this is the wrong place. I'm investigating using logfiles as a means to identify changes that will be made by my accountants for my year end. This leads me to two questions First, is there documentation I can look at on this topic"? I didn't find anything in the user guide, but am not particularly surprised at that. Second, I notice that the main data file is binary. I thought it was XML (perhaps that was at version 4?) But what's odder is that even if I expressly request "save as XML", I still get a binary file. Is this compressed, and if so, does anyone know what the compression is? I'm aware that interpreting the logs will be much easier if I can correlate the UUIDs of the accounts (used in the logs) with the actual account info (which I have previously seen in a tolerably intelligible format in the XML files of old). Any pointers / references? TIA Simon -- Simon Roberts 303 249 3613 https://www.youtube.com/@DancingCloudServices https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonhgroberts/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
