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>I ... have learned very quickly that there >is a *huge* amount of genealogy stuff/activity on the Web. > >Most of it revolves around a genealogy file format called GEDCOM >that apparantly originated with the Church of the Latter Day Saints. > Yes, I've done some work on this, and have been hoping to go public, but it's come to a bit of a standstill while other activities mroe important to my employers have taken over. I agree with you that am XML encoding of GEDCOM (let's call it GedML?) offers great potential benefits: - solving GEDCOM's problems with character sets and binary objects - allowing "rich text" in the textual fields - providing a mechanism for cross-file linkage - making it much easier to write GEDCOM applications - allowing GEDCOM data to be published directly on the web, rather than being reformatted for publication on the web - allowing web search engines to index GEDCOM files intelligently I've got as far as - writing a few notes on the design principles / rationale - writing GEDCOM to GedML converters in both directions - working out in principle how to enhance these to do ANSEL to UNICODE conversion - writing a DTD for GedML - writing an MSXML application that creates a (partial) Java representation of the GEDCOM object model for use by applications. Since I'm stalled, any cooperation will be much appreciated! regards, Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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