Question

When I run the following command in aqbanking

aqbanking-cli request -a 0987654321 -c transactions.ctx --transactions --fromdate=20121011

a file with the contents as seen below is being created. What kind of format is it, I am trying to find a C library that parses it.

From file transactions.ctx:

accountInfoList {
  accountInfo {
    char bankCode="1234567890"
    char bankName="Deutsche Bank"
    char accountNumber="0987654321"
    char accountName="Girokonto"
    char owner="MUELLER, MIKE"
    char currency="EUR"
    int  accountType="0"
    int  accountId="42"

    statusList {
      status {
        int  time="1349956800"

        notedBalance {
          value {
            char value="8799384%2F100"
            char currency="EUR"
          } #value

          int  time="1349956800"
        } #notedBalance
      } #status
    } #statusList
  } #accountInfo
} #accountInfoList

Answer 1

It’s not a standard file format. It’s a file format from the Gwenhywfar library. http://freecode.com/projects/gwenhywfar

From their feature list in the README,

High-level functions for parsing files with a simplified "XML-like"
format and accessing them like a hierarchical database (src/parser/)
It is able to process valid XML files, too.

There are C++ function in the src/parser folder you could probably use, but the documentation looks a bit lacking.