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Should we just mirror the functionality of GEDCOM in XML ? The GEDCOM standard does not exploit the power of publishing genealogical information to the web. Routines like GED2HTML do not generate good looking pages. I understand the dangers of veering from the spec, but I have found to my own experience that GEDCOM is kind of lacking in several areas. To this end, I prefer to maintain my ever growing genealogical database in XML and not GEDCOM. I can still import from, and export to the GEDCOM format. I have richer content, and can easily manage features like image galleries, email, hypertext links, and especially the geography aspect of the relationship between villages, towns, countries and people. I have encompassed pedigree charts to a certain extent using HTML tables, but I would be the first to admit it is a bit of a cludge. http://www.gingell.com/ancframe.html I would like to see GedML add value to GEDCOM, especially in the areas of web publishing. Regards Craig Gingell http://www.gingell.com - a website dedicated to anything and everything Gingell http://www.gingell.com/data/gingell.txt - my XML genealogy file 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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