Re: [Gramps-users] migratability of genealogical data formats

[Steve H. <dig...@mi...>]

From: Alex Roitman, Sat Nov 29 15:18:57 2003
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:01:12PM -0500, Steve Hall wrote:
> >
> > Obviously, I know GRAMPS is Free Software, but the data is stored
> > binary ...
> 
> Well, not really. the data so far is stored in XML format. 

Ah, ok after unzipping...


> For one, [XML is] text and it's human readable.

XML is great. GEDCOM 6 is going XML supposedly, any chance the two
formats will merge some day?


> Images are kept as separate files, no changes are made to images
> when saving from gramps XML to GEDCOM. The gramps XML stores only
> references to the images (or whatever other objects you may have --
> sounds, movies, etc). These references will be promptly saved into
> GEDCOM and the files (images, movies, etc) are placed right by the
> GEDCOM file.

Cool, this is per GEDCOM. 

Once again, there's nothing to fear and every reason to love Free
Software. Thanks for the response.


-- 
Steve Hall  [ dig...@mi... ]