Command line reports?

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> I agree 100% that it would be a good idea to retain the ability to
> export to XML.  WHo knows what kind of possibilities that will open up
> in the future.

Agreed.

> However, does the XML file contain things like account totals?  I
> imagined it would just have the account stucture and raw transaction
> data.  SO, you would still need some kind of engine to do anything
> useful with the data, wouldn't you?

No, account totals are computed, not stored.  You'd still need to
perform some computation on the XML.

> PS: What I would like to see is just a simple "export to <tab>
> delimited file" option for a register window.

Provide the code and I'll commit it ;)

-derek
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