amend transactions programmatically

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:42 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de>:
> 
> > I have hundreds of split transactions, which I would like to
> > "unsplit":
> >
> > 1 split transaction: net interest + tax = gross interest
> >
> > =>
> >
> > 1 debit gross interest
> > 2 credit tax

> > I have looked at the XML data file. One should be able to do the
> > change programmatically. The only problem I can see is the id
> > string.
> 
> You could write a small program to do it, either in C or Scheme,
> using the GnuCash API.  The pseudo-code would look something like:
> 
>   ...


What do I need to download? Is there any API documentation or a small
example C program? 

That will take me back to my good old C days 20 years ago!

TES