From: John R. <jr...@ce...> - 2012-06-18 18:51:04
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On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Jérôme wrote: > Enno, > > > There is also a page on wiki which shows some samples on 'events table' > use and related references or outputs! > > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Events_manager > > Gramps can already use a record like model based on event/source because > it is not dependant of family or person centric models... > > > Example: > 1. a group of persons with ancestors who immigrated to USA create an > association/society. > 2. they have a dns and install 'gramps-connect' (or gramps via cli!) > 3. multiple accounts and worldwide > events/sources/media/notes/persons/families tables editions > 4. they share some records which are common and find some relations > > => they can extract events for generating an index of common and shared > events (or sources) with related references (persons/families). > > > It seems that Cumberland Family Tree program was also able to go further > than old gedcom basics with events by ordering/sorting them by group. > > As said, Gramps is able to share events since many years and do not need > any person or family record for editing an event. :) > > Once I have read that new gedcom concepts cannot go too far too quickly > because windows programs or web applications are not ready (database > design), then this did not make sense to still slow down any development > for this reason... > > It may be naive, but they use more energy for trying to communicate that > to provide solutions! Do you mean GedcomX or BetterGedcom? > > See Michiel's scripts > http://members.tele2.nl/m.d.nauta/typeless_data_entry/typeless_data_entry.html > > Much more modestly, I tested the validation (syntax and content) of > Gramps XML file, and a rapid transformation in local (or via server). > http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lxml_Gramplet > Note, to re-use Michiel's scripts can also work! > > True, we could also try to generate a 'GrampsXML2gedcomx.xslt' but as > you said, gedcomx/bettergedcom (draft) are 'in progress'... Also, to use > java makes things harder, even if Oracle seems behind gedcomx project! Not yet time to write a Gramps <-> GedcomX module. GedcomX isn't yet well enough specified. I haven't noticed anyone from Oracle being involved, either. Don't worry about the java. That's just Ryan's (weird) way of generating the spec, schemas, and diagrams. The actual spec will be English and implementable in any computer language. Regards, John Ralls |