Writing a Sharp Zaurus PDA GnuCash Companion

[Colin Pinkney]

Hi all,

I'm writing a companion app for GnuCash on the Sharp Zaurus. For anyone who
is unfamiliar with the Zaurus go to http://www.myzaurus.com or
http://www.sharp.co.uk/zaurus to find out more.

While I've used a lot of open source software I've never written any myself
before, but since my app will be GPL'ed and put into Sourceforge when I get
it to a reasonably stable state, is it ok for me to use the same XML file
format as GnuCash?

The idea is to use the same file format so that it will then be relatively
easy for me to write a sync conduit to synchronise the PDA and desktop data
files. I use GnuCash on my Linux PC all the time so I've had a look at the
data files and it looks relatively straight forward, but it would still
help if there were some documentation on the file format. Is there any? Is
it using a standard XML schema/DTD?

Thanks for your help,

Colin