Importing self-made formats

Bill Gribble grib@linuxdevel.com
02 Nov 2001 10:03:19 -0600


On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 09:47, Rick van Rein wrote:
> Is GNUcash able to perform a task like this? Is there already a standard
> file format, and if so, where is it defined? Maybe a form of "CSV" style
> is supported, but if so, what values are to be separated by the commas
> then?
> 
> I currently use gnucash 1.3.5 -- not keeping up with Gnome developments.

Current versions of Gnucash (1.6.X and 1.7.X) use an XML file format. 
Several people are doing what you mention ... writing the XML file "by
hand" from another program and reading it into gnucash. 

You can also use the QIF format, which is fairly straightforward to
generate and to import.  The QIF importer in the 1.6/1.7 series is far
better than the one in the 1.3.X series.  

A CSV/TSV file format importer/exporter would be a pretty nice thing to
have, if you have the time and inclination to make one and contribute
it.

b.g.