[Gedcom-parse-devel] Date parsing

[Peter V. <Pet...@ad...>]

I've added date parsing code to the gedcom parser (I've just
checked it in).

At first I thought to put it in the same parser as the rest of
the gedcom file, but that appeared to be hard.  I would have needed 
to separate the date tokens in the gedcom lexer, making the lexer
and its use in the parser much bigger.  Anyway, it is better
to keep the two levels (overall syntax and syntax of the line 
values) separate.

As a consequence, the date parser can be called separately, via
gedcom_parse_date, declared in include/gedcom.h  (Perry, this might 
be useful for you in LifeLines - the date struct uses some of the 
ideas that you wrote in one of your earlier mails to me).

Note that I haven't tested it too much ('make check' works...)

I think I'll write some docs now...

Cheers,
Peter.
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