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Complete Genealogy Data Transfer - Blog comment by arb - 9 Jun 2015
Louis, some programs _are_ islands. A program that imports a data file and prints a report or fancy poster-sized tree does not need to export any data. These programs don't necessarily generate any data. Other programs might import data and do something more intensive, such as providing data mining tools, where ...
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Complete Genealogy Data Transfer - Blog comment by lkessler - 9 Jun 2015
Arb:
I think data exchange is everything. If you can't export the data your program creates, then it's an island unto itself. So yes, developers need to implement the features they want and they only have to make use of just the data they need, But unless they can't add their contribution to the data stream ...
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Complete Genealogy Data Transfer - Blog comment by arb - 8 Jun 2015
(Apologies in advance - I'm on my iPad without a decent keyboard and this is mostly stream-of-consciousness stuff...)
This is a very tricky (and potentially messy) area and I don't think there is one "right" way of doing this. To start with, the restrictions you want to place on software implenenting this ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Jun 2015
Arnold,
Bart Brenner did trace it down. See Bart's post on Google+ which in summary said: " It was originally in a Family Tree Maker (I'm not sure which version) file which was exported to GEDCOM. That GEDCOM was imported into RootsMagic (probably version 4, perhaps version 3). It is also possible that I ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by arnold - 8 Jun 2015
My apologies for not being clear enough.
My main interest was really whether you or anyone else ever found out where the problem originated.
Was it RootsMagic (editing) or export or some cut & paste by the user (and then it would be good to know what application it was cau & pasted from - presumably ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by lkessler - 6 Jun 2015
Arnold,
It was encoded as UTF-8. But that really had nothing to do with it. An end-of-string character is an invalid GEDCOM character and is not allowed in a GEDCOM file.
The post links to my Stack Overflow question. The answer I accepted was what I used. The length function gives th correct length of the ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by arnold - 5 Jun 2015
I'd be curious what the specified file encoding was and whether the actual encoding agreed with that :-)
Also it'd be interested if, where and how the issue was resolved - i.e. just a copy & paste problem, along with a loose GEDCOM output conversion?
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Recording Your Reasoning (Proof Argument) - Blog comment by lkessler - 1 Jun 2015
Yes, you can get infinite loops. It normally isn't a problem for a program like Behold that may expand one level, but otherwise gives everything as links to the other structure. With links, you'll click on one to go to the other. And then, you'll click on the other and go back to the first.
But any program ...
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Recording Your Reasoning (Proof Argument) - Blog comment by arnold - 1 Jun 2015
Curiously, I am just now also preoccupied with SOURces in trying to 'coerce' my app to make it easier to add/maintain/check the source linkages.
One thing that seems a possible problem to me, based on my current knowledge of the GEDCOM standard:
with SOURce records containing NOTEs and NOTEs containing ...
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Literally Nothing From RootsMagic - Blog comment by arnold - 9 Jun 2015