Importing banking data

[Josh Sled]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:54, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote:
> Josh Sled wrote:
> > So, if your bank doesn't support exporting data in one of those formats,
> 
> My bank export the data in CSV and XML, so I have to write a program,
> which converts these data into OFX or QIF.

Yes.

> > then you will need to convert into one of those two formats; QIF is
> > probably the one to target.
> 
> Why is QIF better than OFX?

It's not strictly "better", but it is considerably simpler for most
people to understand, and for most scripts to output.

But your mileage may vary... for instance, if your bank's XML output is
suitable and you're familiar with the OFX format and XSLT, it might be
easier for you to write a transform.

...jsled

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