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This is absolutely a valid reason to not use GnuCash. As for myself, I agree that the XML format is not great, but I use the SQLite format, which allows me to
by gavinhoward 2y ago
This is absolutely a valid reason to not use GnuCash.
As for myself, I agree that the XML format is not great, but I use the SQLite format, which allows me to write scripts on it.
- ranger_danger 2y agoYou can write scripts to transform XML documents as well.
- gavinhoward 2y agoTrue, but I don't want to. And that is the biggest barrier of all.
- cryptonector 2y agoI was going to say what GP said, but, yeah, XSLT is just no fun to write by comparison to SQL.
- atemerev 2y agoHardly anybody was using XSLT even when XML was all the rage. Python scripts work just fine.
- cryptonector 2y agoXSLT 1 was very limited. XSLT 2 was too late. That's my take. I actually like XSLT 2, but it's so verbose... -- it's horrible. Once in a while I dream of adding proper XML support to jq just to be able to use jq as a pithy alternative to XSLT.
- smartmic 2y agoXQuery is easier and can be fun to use!