Comments on: GnuCash export to gnumeric and CSV

By: Shadok

Shadok — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:34:15 +0000

Thanks Greg, this works !

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:32:56 +0000

Here’s how I got all this to work with GNUCash 2.2.9, in Fedora:

1) cd where_gnucash_file_is
2) mkdir tmp; cd tmp
3) sudo yum install -y gnumeric libxslt wget
4) hash -r # if in bash, to update the path cache
5) wget http://xslfactory.free.fr/gnucash2gnumeric_0.6.xsl
6) cp ../my_gnucash_file my_gnucash_file.gz
7) gunzip my_gnucash_file.gz
8) edit gnc-v2 tag in my_gnucash_file as shown in this article.
9) xsltproc -o my_gnucash_file.gnumeric gnucash2gnumeric_0.6.xsl my_gnucash_file
10) inspect the SheetNameIndex entries versus the Sheets with these greps:
11) grep “SheetName” my_gnucash_file.gnumeric. Note the last sheet.
12) grep “gmr:Name>” my_gnucash_file.gnumeric. Note if there are more sheets than found in the above step.
13) edit the bogus sheets out of my_gnucash_file.gnumeric (search for the last valid gmr:Name, delete from the next gmr:Name to /gmr:Sheets)
14) gnumeric my_gnucash_file.gnumeric

By: Lorenzo Lütjens

Lorenzo Lütjens — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:09:21 +0000

Thank you Andrew for the nice work!
Cograts,
Lorenzo Lutjens

By: Andrew Rose

Andrew Rose — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:26:17 +0000

http://sites.google.com/site/gnucashexport/

By: Andrew Rose

Andrew Rose — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:38:32 +0000

I’ve made some mods to the .xsl file to get it working for Gnucash 2.2.6

Feel free to try if it works for you.

I also found that the xalan switches were no longer valid in uppercase, so this is the command line I use -

xalan -in test01 -xsl ./gnucash2gnumeric_0.7.xsl -out test01

Cheers,
Andrew Rose

By: Knut

Knut — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:30:20 +0000

If you don’t mind the competition:
I have been writing an OpenOffice.org macro that will read GnuCash output data and import it into OpenOffice.org’s embedded database, so that thereafter you can evaluate them e.g. in Ooo-Calc. I wrote this at first for myself only, but now I have made it more presentable and fit for general application.
Downloading instructions and a detailed step-by-step description on its use can be found on my website http://www.alice-dsl.net/gnuc2ooo/gnuc2ooo_en/intro.
Kind regards
Knut

By: James Van Bokkelen

James Van Bokkelen — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:27:43 +0000

I tried this with GnuCash 2.2.0 on FreeBSD 7.0. After installing the package ‘xalan-c’ and identifying changes in the command line, I didn’t get anywhere. The first big difference is that the 2.0 file has its own version of the XML header that the XSL factory said needed to be added. The second is that the XSL factory’s Gnucash2Gnumeric.xsl v0.6 appears not to find tokens it’s looking for and makes Xalan exit with a message before parsing any of the input file. So this is on hold till I have time to learn another programming language.

By: matias

matias — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:12:54 +0000

I can’t believa that exporting a simple, simple, and stupid CSV file is SO!! difficult!! Gnucash has a terrible interfase.

By: Knut

Knut — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:14:56 +0000

I am sorry, but my comment was multilated because it seems that the greater than and less than signs are interpreted by the server of this site as Jason mentioned before. Anyhow there was a discrepancy between the Sheet Names as enumerated between [gmr:SheetNameIndex] and [/gmr:SheetNameIndex] and the corresponding “accounts” later on between [gmr:Sheet...] and [/gmr:Sheet]. This had to be corrected by deleting the accounts that had no entry in the Sheet name Index.
Please post if you need further clarifications.

By: Knut

Knut — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:02:05 +0000

I had the same problem as phileas and had to edit the input-file for gnumeric (/tmp/gnumeric.out in Jason’s example) to overcome it.
Problem was: The sheet names looked like this:

ACCOUNTS
DIARY
1__Root Account
2__Aktiva
3__Sachanlagen
…….
102__Anfangsbestand
103__Ausbuchungskonto-EUR

For every entry in the sheet name index there is an account later on in gnumeric.out that looks like this:

103__Ausbuchungskonto-EUR
……

BUT: After my last legitimate account 103__Ausbuchungskonto-EUR there were generated a number of additional (empty) accounts with names like “104__” up to 143__b24474cd40802651f696a13201fc806b.

I deleted these i.e. deleted everything between and and could import into gnumeric.
Without warranty, of course
Knut