XML data file question..

[Jim Lynch]

They are working on implementing GDA, which if I understand it correctly,
will give you access to more than one database.  Seems the database backend
went by the wayside as the geared up to make the leap to version 2.

Jim.

On 2/2/07, Eric Ladner <eric.ladner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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