Error Parsing the File

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Marcus Wolschon wrote:
> I would like to make sure that jGnucashLib can read such broken files
> and spit them out correctly.
> Can you provide more info on this issue?
Hi Marcus,

All the information I have is in the bugreport I referred to:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611853

> What is the best way to deal with it? Set the missing dataPosted to
> the dateEntered and report the issue
> to the user?
> 
For now, that's probably the best workaround.

> Why does Gnucash not validate it´s own XML-schema while writing but
> only when reading?
> 
The bug happens because gnucash lets glib handle the date entered by the user 
and trusts this always works. But apparently there are some cases (only on 
Windows) where the date string passed to glib is not interpreted properly. I 
still haven't been able to reproduce this, so I don't know the exact 
circumstances this happens in. That makes it difficult to fix it properly.

A good temporary solution would probably be to at least check the result of 
the glib function, and supply the dateEntered value if the datePosted value is 
invalid, and issuing a warning. At least the user won't end up with an 
unparseable data file.

Geert