I get an error now (I don't think it's due to that): The error is as follow: Element odoo has extra content: record, line 4

 Xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<odoo>
        <!--Daily Transaction List View  -->
        <record id="daily_transaction_tree_view" model="ir.ui.view">
            <field name="name">daily.transaction.tree</field>
            <field name="model">daily.transaction</field>
            <field name="arch" type="xml">
                <!-- this will be our title of list/tree view   -->
                <tree string="Daily Transaction">
                    <!-- these will automatically map table headers for our list view, so we’ll select out column names of our model here  -->
                    <field name="name"/>
                    <field name="date"/>
                    <field name="type"/>
                    <field name="amount" widget="char"/>
                </tree>
            </field>
        </record>
        <!--Daily Transaction Form View-->
        <record id="daily_transaction_form_view" model="ir.ui.view">
            <field name="name">daily.transaction.form</field>
            <field name="model">daily.transaction</field>
            <field name="arch" type="xml">
                <!-- this will be our title of list/tree view -->
                <form string="Daily Transaction" version="8.0">
                    <group>
                        <field name="name"/>
                        <field name="subject"/>
                        <field name="date"/>
                        <field name="type"/>
                        <field name="amount"/>
                        <field name="note"/>
                    </group>
                </form>
            </field>
        </record>
        <record id="action_daily_transaction" model="ir.actions.act_window">
            <field name="name">Daily Transaction</field>
            <!-- name of action -->
            <field name="res_model">daily.transaction</field>
            <!-- this action will be mapped to model specified -->
            <field name="view_type">form</field>
            <field name="view_mode">tree, form</field>
            <!-- these are type of view our module will show for our daily transaction mode  -->
            <field name="search_view_id"  eval="False"/>
            <!-- here we specify id of our search view -->
            <field name="context">{}</field>
            <field name="help" type="html">Create new daily transaction.</field>
            <!-- help text for our model -->
        </record>
        <!-- Main Menu Related Info -->
        <menuitem name="Daily Transaction" id="base.daily_transaction_root" sequence="60"/>
        <!-- Sub Menu Related Info -->
        <menuitem id="menu_daily_transaction_root" name="Daily Transaction"
        parent="base.daily_transaction_root" sequence="1"/>
        <!-- Action Menu Related Info -->
        <menuitem action="action_daily_transaction" id="menu_action_daily_transaction"
        parent="menu_daily_transaction_root" sequence="20"/>

</odoo>
EDIT: Fixed...
<field name="amount" widget="float" type="char"/>

What do you mean by align Float/number ?