XML data file question..

[Derek Atkins]

We do not support hand-editing your data file.

Having said that, if you make a backup and then do the editing,
the kinds of edits you're trying to make are probably safe.

-derek

Quoting Eric Ladner <eric.ladner at gmail.com>:

> Is it possible to edit the XML file directly without hosing things up?
>
> As an example of what I want to do:   the transaction descriptions I
> get from the OFX data file from the bank are all chopped up, contain
> junk information and generally look pretty nasty.  Back with I used
> QIF, I had a perl script that would massage the file and do
> searches/replaces to clean the data up before importing.  I've
> converted the script to do the OFX files, but there's a lot of data in
> GnuCash already that I'd like to clean up.
>
> I can see places in the XML file where the transaction descriptions
> are, but they live in multiple places (like  under trn:description
> under the actual transaction itself and under act:slots in the
> import-map section.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eric Ladner
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