>Defining an XML DTD for it is easy, but what is really interesting is how
>you could use the data already out there in this format within XML
>applications without having to recode it all.
>
>Unfortunately the XML-Data proposal does not seem to provide sufficient
>tools for mapping the existing schema to an XML equivalent without invoking
>a specialist script. It would be nice if there were some generalized
>mechanisms for doing this.
There has existed a de-facto standard for conversion of GEDCOM to HTML
for a couple of years. Information about it can be found at:
<http://206.139.152.113/GenMatch/genmatch.htm>.
I have used GED2HTML (http://www.gendex.com/ged2html/) and it works VERY
well, even on large databases.
The code is in Perl and gets you half-way there on an XML conversion.
Deke
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