How create datafile from hand that GNUcash can understand/import?

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

Derek

Thanks.  Is there also an explanation anywhere of Gnucash's XML
format??  It doesn't look that hard to create my own Gnucash
XML file from an editor myself.

chris


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:59:07PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> seberino at spawar.navy.mil writes:
>
> > I want to put lots of GNUcash data into a text file
> > that GNUcash can then import if possible.
> >
> > (I want to avoid inputting tons of data with mouse and
> > the GNUcash GUI interface.)
> >
> > Is the Quicken file format the way to go? Is it ASCII?
>
> Yes, QIF is ascii, and it's probably your best bet...
>
> > If there is some simpler format GNUcash can understand
> > such as comma delimited or XML then I'd consider that.
>
> QIF is definitely simpler than any other format that gnucash can read.
>
> -derek
>
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