Re: importing bank qif file

2001-04-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Are you using the CVS version or a recent 1.5 release, or are you using 1.4? The QIF importer in 1.4 had a lot of problems, but the newer one in CVS/1.5 is MUCH better. You may still need to massage your QIF file a bit, depending on the bank it comes from. But as of a couple months ago Grib fix

UUID URL's

2001-04-13 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Bill, FYI, This isn't very important but I thought I'd mention it: I was staring at our gnucash URL's: e.g. Income and realized that there's an internet draft for this stuff (excerpt below). If we follow the draft, a compliant format would be: Income --linas =

importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

2001-04-13 Thread A.
Hi again, When I posted my last question, I was under the impression that online banks used qif files -- that was a poor assumption. My bank (as well as many others) are using web connect. Web connect uses a new format based of of xml (as of version 2.0). This new format (ofx, I think) is tal

Re: importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

2001-04-13 Thread Dave Peticolas
Nathan "A." Smith writes: > Hi again, > > When I posted my last question, I was under the impression that online > banks used qif files -- that was a poor assumption. My bank (as well as > many others) are using web connect. Web connect uses a new format based > of of xml (as of version 2.0).

RE: importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

2001-04-13 Thread Bruin, Bolke de
Title: RE: importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file Hi, I would like to stress the fact that OFX is not "a" version of XML neither it is XML compliant at this time. The "problem" with OFX is that is does not enforce closing of every single tag. Even some client parsers

Re: importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

2001-04-13 Thread Dave Peticolas
"Bruin, Bolke de" writes: > > I would like to stress the fact that OFX is not "a" version of XML neither > it is XML compliant at this time. > > The "problem" with OFX is that is does not enforce closing of every single > tag. Even some client parsers (most notably Quicken) bark on finding these