gnucash 1.6.<mumble> crashed, can I replay the log?
Phillip Shelton
shelton@usq.edu.au
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:30:25 +1000
I don't think you can just cat two valid xml files together, but you should
be able to use xslt to add them together.
> -----Original Message-----
> > Could I convince someone, anyone, to go into TransLog.c and
> gut it, and
> > replace it with the following very very very simple code:
> >
> > printf ("(gnc:split-set-memo split %s)", xaccSplitGetMemo (split));
> >
> > and so on, down the line, so that the contents of the
> resulting log file
> > would be valid scheme that could be piped to guile, to
> recreate the lost
> > session?
>
> Isn't the xml file format just a list of events just like the
> log file?
> It would be really interesting if the log file could be stored in the
> same format as the xml file. Then you could recover by just doing:
>
> cat old_data log_file > new_data
>
> Does the xml file parser support all possible events so it
> could recover
> from a random log of events?
>
> Of course if this is possible, then each event can be saved
> directly to
> the xml file immediately just like with Quicken (and compressed with a
> save operation). Wasn't this one of the reasons for the switch to the
> xml file format?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gerald
>
>
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