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This blog title could very well have started an article about genealogy research, but in this case I'm talking about a quick websearch I did to find a fast database package for Behold. In yesterday's blog post, I mentioned Accuracer by AidAim. They had posted how fast their database was and even gave ...

... is that it inputs GEDCOM and outputs GEDCOM, but stores everything internally as XML, which is the new web standard for storing data that Microsoft has embraced. Several attempts have been made to come up with a GEDCOM XML, but this one is straightforward and uses new XML handling functions from ...

... Some of his ideas are very innovative, e.g.: Report Generator, Spreadsheet output, XML output, making Places an object, Unicode, and (the one I like the best) allowing entry of Pets. Of course, his GenoMaps is the main innovation upon which the program is based. Reading through his material is quite worthwhile. What is ironic is that despite my really relating to ...

... something that would be outdated very quickly. Object definition languages (such as XML) are likely to contribute to meeting these needs." But Family Tree Maker continued to use it, by putting the underscore before it which indicates a custom tag, allowed by GEDCOM. Until I found this out, I was going to put in full SCHEMA support into Behold. That would have entailed ...

All that the Everything Report currently shows is only two of the top level structures from the GEDCOM. Those are the: INDI (individual) and FAM (family) structures. What I needed to code were the others: HEAD (header), NOTE, OBJE (multimedia), REPO (repository), SOUR (source), SUBN (submission) and SUBM ...

... by the forum to a special code: that was interpreted as an improperly placed xml tag, and the RSS feed returned with an error. In the end, it wasn't difficult to fix, but it was tricky to track down.

... set up the feed on my own machine so that every time a person adds a new post, the XML file would be updated with the new message. But when I put that up at my website, I got a security error. Unfortunately, the ASP script was not allowed to write to a file in the directory I wanted. So, using an article I earlier found on the web, I converted that program to a ...

... access Amazon product information. To my surprise, the information was provided in XML format (Extended Markup Language) - the stuff that Microsoft has been pushing over the last few years. I wanted to write this with ASP (Active Server Pages which are written in Visual Basic Script) which I've worked with in enhancing my Behold Discussion Forum and am now fairly ...

... with the latest trends in Genealogical data modeling, there seems to now be a central XML standards site that is collecting the various specifications for Genealogical Data and XML. I did discuss some of my thoughts on this technology on July 27 when I talked about Topic Maps.

... it up again. This issue had a link to an article that really caught my attention: XML Topic Maps - by Craig Murphy, which discusses how XML topic maps provide a mechanism to intelligently classify information, and how to implement topic maps in your apps. That article then links to The Tao of Topic Maps, which is subtitled: "Finding ...