Gnucash XML Data File XSLT Transformation steps

Robert Uhl ruhl at 4dv.net
Sat Aug 23 22:06:07 CDT 2003


Pierre THIERRY <pierre.thierry at moine-fou.org> writes:
>
> > But I want to stop seeing XML for day-to-day datastore use.
> 
> I didn't see a thread about it on the list, what are the problems with
> XML?

Well, for one thing, it's _way_ too verbose, even compressed. It makes a
decent transfer format, sure, but a more traditional textual format is
much smaller--and easier to parse, FWIW.

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Robert Uhl <ruhl at 4dv.net>
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