-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to understand as best as I can the exact meaning of all the fields in the GnuCash file, so I can use the content of the file into an (experimental so far) app.
I see that each transaction is set into a specific currency, this can be seen through the <trn:currency> XML field. I would like to understand why the field has been named "currency" as opposed to "commodity". My understanding was that the field *had* to be set to a value which is a subset of the commodities set, the "currency" commodities specifically (the ones which space is "ISO4217") However, looking at a particular file, which contains over 14,000 transactions, I noticed there are two exceptions: there are two transactions (which were entered very recently) where the currency is not really an ISO4217 commodity, but are a STOCK commodity. So that kind of invalidate my prior understanding, as it appears that the field <trn:currency> can refer to any commodity, not just the ones from the ISO4217 space. This puzzles me, especially that one of the two transactions has a split which describes the movement of an amount in a specific ISO4217 currency (I would have expected the <trn:currency> to be set to that currency), and I would like for someone to really confirm that indeed, the <trn:currency> field can refer to more than just an ISO4217 commodity, or whether it is unexpected that it does so in only two transactions out of over 14,000 in this particular file. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRNfhFAAoJECXhSQt2FHDCAU4H/jT7zhSLRRkuH9d59bluRj3E aNplGHh6lgXaQFVIsnDceK3lt1fYkUfM0cj+6w14Dnv2KxBVwzZR2xJwp/B1Bcma gIEtJxFvi+KXDHK2ElRSkIqWeXKdKsjf4eZANI2mp5ptT1v+kgT6iv4LZ1LdYerX g6E0aeDj3BHLCae8COdqT/MmrJuJIcnFxscboa7g1WSyCxI8AcAT55D9BYg/zkFQ osG0LLrkxsN43HqwEAVEcLSuDu5w3AA6PBf2aCsaImCtU+F09+/t6yBUjmn9tI0n jT/W/LZ00lw4HVbVQn/iyUnfqSdHBrxjZFDiXz/Oiw0g3/Y/cf36tefFGVC85hA= =+bpR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
