hand-coded transactions

[Kevin HaleBoyes]

I've been using GnuCash for about a year.  I've managed to
input a lot of transactions from old statements but I want
to input more to have a larger history.

Now, my situation is unique as I lived outside Canada for
several years which means that I had very few transactions
for these years.  It is these Canadian transactions that
I want to input.

They are pretty much just "service charges" and "saving
account interest".

Just for fun I wrote a small perl program to create the
<gnc:transaction> entries.  I then took those and merged
them into my BoR xml file (after a backup of course).

When I restarted gnucash I got quite a few errors to the
console than I don't get in the original BoR file.  Here
is a snippet of the messages:
-----------------------------------
Transactions: Total: 1144, Loaded: 1160
Accounts: Total: 184, Loaded: 183
Books: Total: 1, Loaded: 0
Commodities: Total: 0, Loaded: 0
Scheduled Tansactions: Total: 0, Loaded: 0
Transactions: Total: 1144, Loaded: 1161
Accounts: Total: 184, Loaded: 183
Books: Total: 1, Loaded: 0
Commodities: Total: 0, Loaded: 0
Scheduled Tansactions: Total: 0, Loaded: 0
Transactions: Total: 1144, Loaded: 1162
-----------------------------------

First, is it possible to even do this?
It looks like there is a transaction count somewhere that
I also need to update.  Is that true?
Maybe there are just too many little things that need to
be updated manually to accomplish this.  That's fine but
I wanted to see if I could merge these hand-coded transactions.

Thanks for your help,
Kevin.