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   Re: GEDCOM - A Killer XML Application?

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  • From: Deke Smith <deke@tallent.com>
  • To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 98 09:54:19 -0600

Martin Bryan, mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com said on 2/9/98 4:23 AM:

>Defining an XML DTD for it is easy, but what is really interesting is how
>you could use the data already out there in this format within XML
>applications without having to recode it all.
>
>Unfortunately the XML-Data proposal does not seem to provide sufficient
>tools for mapping the existing schema to an XML equivalent without invoking
>a specialist script. It would be nice if there were some generalized
>mechanisms for doing this.

There has existed a de-facto standard for conversion of GEDCOM to HTML 
for a couple of years. Information about it can be found at: 
<http://206.139.152.113/GenMatch/genmatch.htm>.

I have used GED2HTML (http://www.gendex.com/ged2html/) and it works VERY 
well, even on large databases. 

The code is in Perl and gets you half-way there on an XML conversion.

Deke

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