Hi John, I'm unsure how else an XML reader would build up an accounts tree without additional information. Given the following list of accounts:
Assets Chequing Short-Term Savings How would a reader determine the account tree? Is the correct tree: Assets Assets:Chequing Assets:Savings Assets:Short-Term or Assets Assets:Chequing Assets:Savings Assets:Savings:Short-Term or some other combination? I realize that the amounts in each account might be used to help determine the account tree, but that would not be fool-proof. A <fullname> tag should solve the problem, but I believe that my original suggestion of nesting accounts to show hierarchy would work better and provide a more elegant solution. Thanks, Ryan On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:32 AM, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Ryan May <[email protected]> writes: > >> i.e. The name of an account like Assets:Chequing:Bank is recorded simply as >> <name>Bank</bank>. >> >> The full name of the account does seem to be implied by the ordering of the >> XML: > > I believe it's expected that the reader will build up an accounts tree, but I > can certainly add a "<fullname>" tag. > > John >
