On Tuesday 11 October 2016 10:33:26 José JORGE wrote: > hi, > > I am a Gnucash end user for years, and also it's packager for the > Mageia Linux distro. > > French law now requires to be able to export in a well defined XML > format following an XSD structure file : > https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT0000277 > 88276&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id > > I wonder if it would be easy to add this export to Gnucash, as I can > see in gnucash-fr ML this is a big problem. > > I could try myself if someone points me where to start, as I am myself > in the need of this function. My structure could also donate some > money to gnucash to make this happen. > > Thanks for your attention > > José
Hi José, First off, thank you for the time you spend on packaging GnuCash for the Mageia Linux distro. That work is highly appreciated! Right now GnuCash doesn't have any xml export functionality so achieving this from within gnucash means writing it from scratch. Ideas about exports can be taken from the other export functions, which are written in C. I couldn't readily determine which data is required in the xml from the link you provided, partly because I don't know what all the terms mean on that page, and partly because it seems it's only a summary of changes. It does look like more data may be required than gnucash stores. One way you may approach this would be to check whether one or more of the included reports in gnucash provide the needed information. The reports are formatted as xhtml. which at least follows a similar syntax. You may be able to make a variation of such report (or combine information from several reports) that outputs an xml file instead. It would surely require source code changes for the custom report. The reports are written in the guile scripting language so some knowledge of that language is a must for this approach. A variation would be to save the report(s) that contain(s) the needed data and then write an xslt filter that translates the report(s) into the required xml file. If you can afford to limit your support to linux-like platforms only, you could also investigate the python bindings and check if you can gather the needed documentation via python code. Yet another way may be to explore piecash, which is a project that allows to extract data from a gnucash data set in sql format. This requires your data file to be saved in sqlite format instead of xml. And the last possibility I can think of would be to write an xslt filter that parses the gnucash data file (when saved as xml) directly to gather the necessary data and generate the xml file you need. Most of these variations are suboptimal obviously. It would be great if we could have something better integrated. Regards, Geert Janssens _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
