XML data file question..

[Eric Ladner]

Thanks for the information.  I'll give it a shot with a backup first.  :)

On a slightly related note, what happened to the database backend
option?  I'd be a lot more comfortable editing tables in a database
(PG or MySQL) than an XML file.

On 2/2/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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