NAME
dfxml-invoice - parse a QSF XML file and prepare a simple invoice
DATAFREEDOM
These scripts developed from the 'pilot-qof' package but now include
support for other packages and formats and will continue to be extended
along the lines of http://www.data-freedom.org/ - liberating user data
from the application. Therefore, the datafreedom scripts use a 'df'
prefix.
The scripts continue to be developed within the pilot-qof CVS until
such time as the scripts are sufficiently cohesive to form a new source
package.
Please feel free to contribute any of your own scripts, under the
provisions of the GNU General Public Licence v3 or later, via the QOF-
devel mailing list.
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qof-devel
VERSION
Version 0.0.1
SYNOPSIS
dfxml-invoice FILENAME
dfxml-invoice -h|--help|--version
DESCRIPTION
dfxml-invoice parses a QSF XML file output by pilot-qof and prepares a
simple invoice based on rates specified in ~/.datafreedom/currency
which will be created for you.
Specify '-' as the filename to parse STDIN.
e.g.
pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-09 | dfxml-invoice -
A more complex example using 'zenity' - a Gnome dialog generator.
$ pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-08 | dfxml-invoice - > /tmp/zenity
zenity --text-info --title="2006-11-08" --filename=/tmp/zenity --width=500 --height=300
dfxml-invoice, like pilot-qof, is designed to be used in pipes like
this. It is intended to provide support for your own scripts where
details like the date can be set as an option:
#!/bin/bash
DATE=$1
if [ ! $DATE ]; then
echo "$0: please specify the date of the invoice you want to view."
exit
fi
pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t $DATE | dfxml-invoice - | \
zenity --text-info --title="$DATE" --width=500 --height=300
Note that if the currency uses a UTF-8 symbol, zenity may fail to
display the symbol correctly unless the above code is adapted to write
to a temporary file and zenity then loads that file using the
'--filename' option. See Debian Bug# 410728.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410728
Or, a full zenity version which allows the date to be selected in a
calendar widget:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
MSG="Select the date of the invoice to view"
DATE=`zenity --calendar --text="$MSG" --date-format="%Y-%m-%d"`
TIME=`date -d"$DATE" +"%A, %B %e %Y"`
if [ ! $DATE ]; then
echo "$0: please specify the date of the invoice you want to view."
exit
fi
pilot-qof -x /opt/data/pilot-qof/offline.xml --invoice-city -t $DATE \
| dfxml-invoice - | zenity --text-info --title="$TIME" --width=500 --height=400
OBJECTS
pilot_expenses is part of pilot-qof. Can also be used with gpe-
expenses - compatibility with the default SQLite gpe-expenses backend
is pending.
<http://qof.sourceforge.net/>
<http://pilot-qof.sourceforge.net/>
<http://gpe-expenses.sourceforge.net/>
AUTHOR
Neil Williams, "<codehelp at debian.org>"
BUGS
Please report bugs via the pilot-qof package, either in the Debian BTS
or via SourceForge trackers.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2007 Neil Williams.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.