SQL Backend

[Jesse]

Hi I'm a fairly amature programmer, but am motivated to find a way to
make gnucash fit my needs the way I want it to.
Primarily I would like to intergrate gnucash with an Invoice form I have
on OpenOffice Base but have not managed to get the SQL Backend working
yet. (I'm running Ubuntu and "make" keeps encountering errors)

Will the SQL Backend allow me to do this or would I be better off
attempting to help improve the business features, or create a web from
that accesses the xml direct? Is there any documentation on how gnucash
structures it's xml files?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

Jesse