Plain Text Accounting

Re:Plain Text Accounting by blackbear_ on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:13AM (#25747894)

> It’s hard to formulate structured “plain text” formats that are human readable, human writeable, machine readable, and machine writable.

XML? Or is that too far from plain text?

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Re:Plain Text Accounting by massysett on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:16AM (#25748853)

It’s hard to do this in XML because parsers nearly always strip out comments and often whitespace too. Thus writing days to the file strips out important data that I expect to be able to add if the file were truly human writable.

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Re:Plain Text Accounting by andrepd on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#25752652)

XML is not human readable or writeable.

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