On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 14:18, Stefan Bluhm <gnucash....@bluhm-de.com> wrote: > > Is there a reason to keep supporting the XML file in future?
More than "a reason", singular. Here are two that come to my mind, based on past usage: 1) It's a lot simpler to perform XSLT actions on an XML file than it is an SQLite file 2) You don't need any SQL-aware tools to inspect or manipulate an XML file, just a plain-text aware pager or editor does the job. As for the more recent, > Let me please summarise your demands for XML ,,, well, the "demand" here would appear to be the one that would no longer see XML supported. Perhaps it would be better if you would, instead, summarised the benefits, as you see them, of taking XML away, noting of course that suggestions akin to "well, you could still do X but would just have to do it with S" will rarely be seen as beneficial by those who are already doing X. Is there perhaps, something that you want to do with the codebase that you are currently unable to do, because you have to write it out to an XML file when you come to save, or would not be able to read in from an XML file when opening? Just my tre'pen'th though: and probably not worth even that in "new money"! _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel