Import text files of foreign accounting programs

[Christian Stimming]

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On Sonntag, 9. Juni 2002 22:52, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> The data I had was in a simple clean text format though I
> knew it would be easy to parse it, but a bit more
> complicated to transform it into the GnuCash format. But
> the transformation to the XML format was welcomed by me.
> A couple of weeks ago I stumbled about REXML a XML-parser
> for Ruby, so I decided to write a small script and it
> proved to be quite easy, and I successfully converted all
> my old accounting data to GnuCash. 

If this text->gnucash-xml conversion works, then why don't we include it in 
CVS, be it even into src/experimental, into a txt-import directory? People 
ask about various import features all the time, so if this is a working 
conversion then we have at least *something* to point people to. Personally, 
I don't have any accounting data in any text/table/whatever format, so I 
can't tell how well this script works. 

Anyway, Niklaus, thanks for contributing this work, and maybe you get hooked 
for hacking on gnucash itself... scheme might be unusual at first, but a 
bunch of developers on IRC at irc.gnome.org's #gnucash will always happily 
help you out with any scheme code fragment you need. :-)

Christian
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