Rasend schnell ist das nicht (900GHz Celeron), aber die Wartezeiten lassen Raum für Kreativität ;-)

Hiermit können wir die in gnucash erzeugte Kontenhierachie relativ simpel in eine Tabelle überführen.

-- load XML Library and gzip

local m = require"LuaXML"
local g = require"gzip"
local iolib = require"io"

local output = io.open("AcctDim.xls", "w")

-- open gzip'ed file and load contents to ram
local f = gzip.open([[E:gnucashHaushaltskasse.gnucash]])
local xmlString = f:read("*a")

-- transform xml into lua table
local xfile = xml.eval(xmlString)

-- find the book element
local book = xml.find(xfile,"gnc:book")

-- print output file header
output:write("AccountnametIDtParentn")

-- print dimension info
for k, v in pairs(book) do
  if v[0] == "gnc:account" then
    for i, j in pairs(v) do
      if j[0] == "act:id" then
        output:write(j[1] .. "t")
      elseif j[0] == "act:name" then
        output:write(j[1] .. "t")
      elseif j[0] == "act:parent" then
        output:write(j[1] .. "t")
      end
    end
    output:write("n")
  end
end

output:close()