XML data file question..

[Derek Atkins]

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-derek

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

> 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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>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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> -- 
> Eric Ladner
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available