A borrowings Object. Describes the Borrowing History of the Item.

A borrowings object is in the following format

<borrowings>
  <line>
   <col>Borrower</col>
   <col>Borrowed_On</col>
   <col>Returned_On</col>
  </line>
</borrowings>

The <borrowings> object may have between 0 and unlimited <line> elements. Each descibes a loan incident.

NOTES

Borrower

Is cross referenced to the borrowers attribute of GCstar.conf. However there is no constraint placed upon this field, therefore any name should be a valid entry. Unknown and Nobody also appear to be valid entries.

Borrowed_On/Returned_On

Dates are free form in that the user can enter the date in any format s/he wishes, However using the program dialog to choose dates defaults to the date format setting in GCstar.conf

An item that has the borrowed by Unknown, Nobody, and John

<borrowings>
   <line>
    <col>Nobody</col>
    <col>01/06/2009</col>
    <col>07/06/2009</col>
   </line>
   <line>
    <col>Unknown</col>
    <col>07/06/2009</col>
    <col>14/06/2009</col>
   </line>
   <line>
    <col>John</col>
    <col>14/06/2009</col>
    <col>21/06/2009</col>
   </line>
</borrowings>