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BetterGEDCOM - Blog comment by uwe - 8 Dec 2010
... wondering, Louis. What holds you back to implement the conversion of GEDCOM data into XML or even JSON format yourself? From a programmer's perspective, it should be fairly easy.
http://www.progdigy.com/?page_id=6
http://xml.coverpages.org/genealogy.html#gedML
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BetterGEDCOM - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Dec 2010
... does a decent job.
I think GEDCOM only needs a few tweaks: maybe convert it to XML and make it Unicode. Add Places and Citations at the record level. And update its handling of media files. But there are some people that think that it needs more.
A new site has been created called BetterGEDCOM and its at bettergedcom.wikispaces.com. This is where a number of ...
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What I'm Following - Blog entry by lkessler - 18 Feb 2009
The work continues on splitting Behold's Everything Report into pieces.
But while I do spend a lot of time working on Behold, I also spend time keeping up to date on what else is happening out there with regards to genealogy software.
Most of you know I've set up GenSoftReviews, which now pretty much runs ...
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2008
Now where will this path lead me?
Two posts ago, I thought to convert to using XML as my internal data structure, since it's equivalent to GEDCOM and I had an XML library available. The library wasn't bad, but when I looked closer at it, I saw it was effectively using a simple tree structure.
So then I thought to load the GEDCOM ...
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XML is GEDCOM; GEDCOM is XML - Blog comment by lkessler - 11 Nov 2008
Don't worry. I enjoy these conversations.
Even today, XML has not made any significant impact in genealogy software. And you ask the average computer user about XML and they won't know what you're talking about. In fact most web developers don't know the difference between HTML and
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XML is GEDCOM; GEDCOM is XML - Blog comment by uwe - 11 Nov 2008
Web designers used XML based solutions even before 2000, MSXML is around since 2003, and the same year there were already Delphi components available for both D4 and D5 (for example OmniXML or OpenXML). ...
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XML is GEDCOM; GEDCOM is XML - Blog comment by lkessler - 11 Nov 2008
XML 1.0 only became a W3C Recommendation in February 1998. RSS feeds became based on them. But it really took until the onset of Web 2.0 and Microsoft's adoption of them for their default Office formats before it become something important.
I've known about
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XML is GEDCOM; GEDCOM is XML - Blog comment by uwe - 11 Nov 2008
XML a new technology? You must have been hiding somewhere in the Canadian woods, Louis... ;-)
Here is a link that might help:
http://xml.coverpages.org/genealogy.html#gedML
HTH
Uwe
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XML is GEDCOM; GEDCOM is XML - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Nov 2008
... for handling the internal data. But I may have discovered something even better.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a new technology developed to transport and store data. It contains start <TAGS> that are closed by ending </TAGS>. Between the start and end tags is the value associated with the tag. Tags can be nested.
Hmmm. GEDCOM looks like this:
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BetterGEDCOM - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Dec 2010