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"the_verminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <the_verminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 19, 10:51 am, moja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Everett M.
> Greene) wrote:
>> Wes Groleau <groleau+n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> > Everett M. Greene wrote:
>> > > Not having looked at the XML-based proposals, I'm not familiar
>> > > with what's being proposed, but if the preceding is a valid
>> > > example, I don't see any significant benefit. As you say,
>> > > there's not semantic difference and clutter is being added for
>> > > no obvious reason.
>>
>> > That's why I said, it's like going from English to pig-Latin.
>> > Semantically there is no difference. Any flaws in the GEDCOM
>> > data model are in both versions. And there are flaws, though
>> > GEDCOM obviously is not completely useless. (And that's why
>> > no one seems to be in a big hurry to fix it.)
>>
>> > I can think of two advantges of XML:
>>
>> > 1. Open source and commercial XML parsers are everywhere.
>>
>> > 2. If you know how to use XSL, you can write a presentation
>> > stylesheet. Your GEDCOM (XML) file plus the XSL is all
>> > that's necessary for a sufficiently modern browser to
>> > make a fairly nice web page. In other words, instead
>> > of writing code to transform GEDCOM into HTML, you write
>> > a high-level spec for that code, and the user's browser
>> > does all the rest of the work!
>>
>> Those are valid points for those who are interested in generating
>> Web-oriented presentations. But what ****tion of people dealing
>> with genealogy are interested in doing that?- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
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> Well.... if you enter the phrase "this website" and the word genealogy
> into google it comes up with one million two hundred ninety thousand
> hits.
>
> So someone is interested for sure!
>
>
I think it goes beyond mere interest. With Micro$oft dabbling
in their "cloud o/s" and much of the 'net already using the
web to some degree for transactions of all sorts, it's probably
only a matter of time before web-oriented presentations of
genealogical data becomes the norm, rather than the exception. I
think applications like phpGedView, The Next Generation and, to
a lesser extent, GeneWeb represent the tip of that particular
iceberg.
Bob Melson
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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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