Corrupted a file now get "no suitable backend found"

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 17 November 2013 09:12:59 Dennis Shimer wrote:
> Right, obviously lesson learned.  However let me expand a bit.  I was
> thinking that since this is just a text file, I could open it in an
> editor and change some errant text in the account names so thats what
> I did.  I'd like to know the error in my logic. Is there some kind of
> connection that I don't know about that goes beyond gnucash reading
> that XML file when opening? Is there something in the account name
> (or other account) attributes that are off limits to changing outside
> the gnucash environment?
> 
I don't think so. It should have been ok to edit the account names. Unless 
your changes would introduce character that should normally be escaped 
inside xml. Characters like '<' and '>' are obvious examples, but there 
are more (I don't know them all).

Geert