Balance sheet report for multiple accounts

[Larry Evans]

On 09/28/2016 03:36 PM, Sébastien de Menten wrote:
> If you are adventurous, you could try to
> a) create the accounts for each entity at root level and as type equity (or
> any other type),
> b) save the file in uncompressed xml format and close it
> c) open the xml file in a text editor , change the type of these accounts
> from EQUITY to ROOT and save the file
> d) open the xml file in gnucash and create the accounts for each entity.
> You should be able to create accounts of any type.
>
> All untested, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK kind of hack, but it worked/works if
> my memory is good...
>
Tired it. Doesn't work.  When opened file with GC, no accounts appeared.
Here's the diff between the pre and post edit:

*** RootLevelEntitiesPostEdit.gnucash	2016/09/28 23:01:18	1.1
--- RootLevelEntitiesPostEdit.gnucash	2016/09/28 23:03:05
***************
*** 82,88 ****
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity1</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">727f9a00736db3a4d848ae5aabe32954</act:id>
!   <act:type>EQUITY</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
--- 82,88 ----
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity1</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">727f9a00736db3a4d848ae5aabe32954</act:id>
!   <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
***************
*** 99,105 ****
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity2</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">e85aedcc24baca1bdeb8bb3f3defcbec</act:id>
!   <act:type>EQUITY</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
--- 99,105 ----
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity2</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">e85aedcc24baca1bdeb8bb3f3defcbec</act:id>
!   <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
***************
*** 116,122 ****
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity3</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">7c028148efef6bbf27ade060c444f080</act:id>
!   <act:type>EQUITY</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
--- 116,122 ----
   <gnc:account version="2.0.0">
     <act:name>Entity3</act:name>
     <act:id type="guid">7c028148efef6bbf27ade060c444f080</act:id>
!   <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
     <act:commodity>
       <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
       <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>