XSLT Transform for Gnucash XML file

[Derek Atkins]

Don't ask me -- I didn't create the XML backend.  Ohh, Oops -- the
dev who did is no longer with the project.  Oh well, life sucks.

But to answer your questions:

a) i dont think any of the devs understand xml well enough to implement
   DTD validations
b) the code doesn't use DTDs at all -- all the parsers (and generators) 
   are hand written
c) none of the devs _care_ enough to worry about it

Why XML if we can only use it in gnucash?  Good question -- go ask the
dev who created it.  It doesn't even meet the original goal (full
backwards and forwards compatibility) from when it was originally
proposed.  OOPS.

-derek

Régis Leroy <lapagearegis at free.fr> writes:
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> And what about using DTD in the validation phase, before final release.
> not inside gnucash but in gnucash's developpement.
> Having real DTD can give realy useful contribs, and maybe some good
> alpha-test files.
> The question is why XML if we can only use theses files with gnucash
> (and only the same version as the producer)?
> 
> Le mer 24/09/2003 à 00:52, Derek Atkins a écrit :
> > Perhaps, but those doc files are not authoritative..  Gnucash
> > _does not use DTDs_ -- for better or for worse this is how it
> > was written years and years ago.
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Régis Leroy <lapagearegis at free.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > Maybe theses files are a good start to obtain DTD, no?
> > > 
> > > http://www.gnucash.org/lxr/gnucash/source/src/doc/xml/
> > 
> > -- 
> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> >        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> >        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> >        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
> > 
> 

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available