Thursday, April 9, 2009

Exhibit A

Here's a snippet from a file I downloaded from my bank.


<stmttrn>
<trntype>DEBIT
<dtposted>20090408120000
<trnamt>-3.28
<fitid>00090350406-3.2800904083163.64
<name>CHECKCARD 0406 DUNKIN #310088 Q3
</stmttrn>


Look familiar? It's just XML.

It might look like this after "tax transparentizing" it --


<stmttrn>
<trntype>DEBIT
<dtposted>20090408120000
<trnamt>-3.28
<subtotal>-3.07
<salestax>-0.21
<fitid>00090350406-3.2800904083163.64
<name>CHECKCARD 0406 DUNKIN #310088 Q3
</stmttrn>


Depending on your software, you might not need <subtotal> but it couldn't hurt.