gnucash 1.6.<mumble> crashed, can I replay the log?

[Phillip Shelton]

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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