Re: Use of XML?

"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> So what the OP seeks is a genealogy/family history program that uses XML

> as the basis for its information content.  I know that there was 

Well, at least one that could read a schema and fit the data into it's own

"slots" and/or ask the user how to map it to do so or discard it. Then be 
able to ex****t the native data to an XML compliant file & schema. I just 
keep thinking that now the actual data is muddled in with relation****p 
logic and categorization labels due either to software or user
preferences, 
and that XML could help start to clear some of that up. Even if the schema

was a direct match for GEDCOM 5.5 or something even more crude as a base 
minimum, XML would allow for more granular data but at the same time 
backward compatability.

> supposed to be an effort underway to promote a new GEDCOM standard (6.0,

> whereas the current one is 5.5) that uses XML, but I'm not aware of its 
> current status.  Nor am I aware of any software to date that uses XML 
> for its own "proprietary" data format.
> 
> But I will agree with the OP that using XML as the basis for the data 
> managed by any app (whether or not it's genealogy-related) greatly 
> improves the ability of third parties to see what's contained therein, 
> and perhaps even to offer some extensibility for many software packages 
> as a result.  After more than seven years as a user of XML, I too have 
> become an advocate.
> 

Funny how that works & is so hard to explain, eh? :-)

> = Steve =