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From: (Robert Melson)
Subject: Re: Beyond GEDCOM
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:00:30 GMT
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In article <>,
Lars Eighner <> writes:
> In our last episode, <2h6ni.9164$>,
> the lovely and talented Robert Melson broadcast on soc.genealogy.misc:
>
>> Out of curiosity, what would you suggest replace the gedcom
>> "standard"? Is the problem so much with the standard or with
>> the programs that implement it? As Micro$oft and Oracle have
>> amply proved, a standard exists as a standard only so long as
>> the players consider themselves bound by it; once the standard
>> is breached it becomes meaningless.
>
> Well, at this point, thanks to a suggestion on another group,
> I am looking at gramps. Since it is open source, it seems to me possible
> that I can devise a commandline interface to it.
>
If I'm not totally mistaken, though, the gramps xml scheme is
built on gedcom 5.5, which would seem counter to what you
propose. As well, I believe there already IS a command-line
interface to gramps.

After all the early drum-pounding and huzzahs, it seems the
proposed gedcom 6 standard, based on xml, has died aborning.
The concept, however, is something you might want to look into.
If you can't track down a copy of the draft standard, let me
know, I think I may still have a copy stashed, together with some
DTDs to go with it.

Bob Melson

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