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Dave: This wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't string this out so long. From February to now September is much too long between releases. So please bear with me a while longer. Summer and Genealogy Q&A and BetterGEDCOM and work and family and well, life in general, has been getting in the way. Once I ...

Brett: Behold's options are set up a bit differently than other programs. I did this early on in the development, and I thought it was very flexible, but most people stumble over it. I think I'm either going to have to explain it well in the documentation, or else I'll have to change it. None-the-less, here's ...

Brett, The DATE and PLAC tag are not allowed under a NAME tag. In GEDCOM, look up the PERSONAL_NAME_STRUCTURE. Behold doesn't yet check for tags in improper places. That check will be added when I do GEDCOM export and include a "perfect" GEDCOM 5.5.1 validator with it. Louis

Brett: DAY := dd { Size 1:2 } dd is a numeric digit whose value is within the valid range of the days for the associated calendar month. My interpretation of GEDCOM is that both 03 and 3 are allowed. It does not say that leading zero's are not allowed. Behold reads both and allows 03 and does not give any ...

Yes. All parts of the date. And that actually simplifies the work that Behold is doing. Personally, I think it is a great idea that the GEDCOM designers had. I should have discovered it earlier, but now that I have, I'll make use of it. Louis

I think it simply means comparing for the purpose of interpreting its value. For a DATE value, I don't just compare the month-part to JAN, FEB, MAR,..., but I compare the uppercased value of the month-part to JAN, FEB, MAR,... For a TYPE value, I don't just compare the value to STILLBORN, but I compare the ...

Brett, See my blog post: How To Get A Developer To Fix A Bug. No, Tamura's correct. The statement: "values should be converted to all uppercase or all lowercase prior to comparing" means that aPR and aPr should be both changed to APR (if uppercase is used for comparison) or to apr (if lowercase is used for ...

Brett: Actually, no. The log file is associated with the GEDCOM file that is input. If you input 3 GEDCOMs into Behold at once, then 3 log files are produced. It is designed to tell you what import problems happen from the GEDCOM file. Once Behold has its own data file format, you will be reading from a .bhp ...

cp: Thanks for telling me of this. No, I didn't even think of probate when I put the "events after death" together. I'll make that change and it will be in the next version of Behold. Louis

Brett: Comparing the logs you sent me from VGedX and GED-inline tells me that GED-inline gives better messages. VGedX said: "Unknown record found" which doesn't tell you much, but GED-inline tells you "Tag DATE is not allowed under NAME" and "Tag PLAC is not allowed under name". GED-inline is correct. DATEs ...