Hand Editing the XML

Ariel asgnucash at dsgml.com
Fri Jun 1 13:00:02 EDT 2007


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Karl Grant <karlgrant06 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I have a list of old customers and jobs that I would like to enter into my
>> accounts. Would I be able to insert XML directly into the accounts file and
>> manually create a 32bit GUID for the entries?
>
> No.  For one thing, GUIDs are much bigger than 32 bits. ;)
> Seriously, tho, you probably do not want to do this by hand-editing
> the XML.  You could write some scheme to create the entries, or
> you can just use the UI.

You could use xte and script it. Won't be easy, but it might work. 
Probably not worth the trouble though - unless you have quite a lot of 
things to enter.

 	-Ariel


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