importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:47:03 -0700


"Bruin, Bolke de" writes:
> 
> I would like to stress the fact that OFX is not "a" version of XML neither
> it is XML compliant at this time.
> 
> The "problem" with OFX is that is does not enforce closing of every single
> tag. Even some client parsers (most notably Quicken) bark on finding these.
> 
> I am in the stage of assembling information on how to parse these files,
> probably with the html part of expat or libhtml, which I translated to PHP
> for the server part (quicken-ofx-server, download site is currently
> unavailable).
> 
> some links
> 
> http://services.eurobench.nl/quicken/quicken.php
> 
> for requests(==server)
> 
> http://services.eurobench.nl/quicken/post.php
> 
> form to easily post you scripts to the server (have to check if
> I still allow this)

Thanks for the links. OFX before 2.0 uses SGML and is not XML-compliant.
However, I believe OFX 2.0 is XML compliant.

dave