[GNC] Importing XLM into GNUCash

[David Carlson]

Technically, XML files either follow a companion style sheet or follow an
implicit style predetermined specifically for a given application.

GnuCash applicable  files and OFX files are both of the second type. There
is no expectation that a XML type file not created explicitly for either of
those applications or for any of the dozens of other applications could be
read by a different application than the target application.

You might compare XML to English  or Chinese,  rather than to assembly or
Fortran or C.

David  Carlson

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 4:42 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Will
>
> In a sense GnuCash does import xml as its main datafile is stored as an
> xml file if you are not using the database
> backends. XML is possibly a bit too wordy for general use as you have two
> tags in addition to the data for each piece of
> data. you cannot use random tags - the program has to know how to
> interpret the tags. GnuCash also does import OFX and
> QFX files which are XML files using a set of tags defined in the OFX
> specification for the exchange of finacial data.
> You could always format data for import as OFX but it has a lot of
> extraneous data identifying the sourceof the data and
> purpose that has to be supplied. CSV is generlly far easierto setup and
> import.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 08:17 -0500, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
> > I am new to this mailing list although I have used GnuCash for years. I
> don't know if there exists a current solution
> > to importing xml data, but it would seem to me to be a simple matter to
> write a translator that could convert xml into
> > csv or some other format. Most languages (python, ruby, perl) have
> support for reading xml. Writing csv is easy.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On 2020 Jun 2, at 06-02 20:42:00, Daming Gao <gdmut2013 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear community members,
> >
> > I am very new to GNUCash and here might be a dumb question to ask.
> >
> > We are using Logitude software to keep track of our invoices. They are
> exportable XML format. Is there a way to import
> > XML into GNUCash? Since the import function does not support that (I
> only saw QIF/FIX/CSV…etc).
> >
> > Any help could be appreciated!
> >
> > Best,
> > Gary
> >
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