test XML file after manual modification

[John Dablin]

If you open the (uncompressed) file with Firefox it will validate 
the XML. Beware it takes a long time to open the file (about a 
minute for mine, which is about 2.5MB). Whether this would be any 
more use than error reports from Gnucash I don't know, and of 
course it will only check that it's syntactically correct, not that 
the data is!

John Dablin

On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Ian Smith-Heisters" <i at idiosyncra.tc> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Say I *need* to manually modify the XML accounts file. Is there
> > a set of tests/actions I can perform in GnuCash that will
> > ensure that some weird problem won't appear as a result of my
> > modifications a year from now? Is the XML file's functioning an
> > all or nothing thing? Is there some way to validate it?
>
> Unfortunately no, there's no way to validate it, which is why we
> don't support manual modification of the data file.
>
> Why do you need to manually modify it?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Ian
> >
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek