From: Jim Menard Date: 2004-11-06T01:35:36+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] GEDCOM Parser (#6) 1) There are some records near the end of the data like this: 0 @F46@ F100 24709 100 24709 0 0 18316 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 0:00:00 21636100 24709 100 24709 0 0 18316 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 0:00:00 21636 It has an ID, but the data value is definitely NOT a legal XML tag name. What does the Ruby Quiz spec have to say about that? 2) Looking at the royal.ged example, it seems that--except for the special INDI case--if a node has children then it does not have a value. 0 @I1@ INDI 1 NAME Edward_VII /Wettin/ 1 TITL King of England 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE Tuesday, 9th November 1841 2 PLAC Buckingham,Palace,London,England 1 DEAT 2 DATE Friday, 6th May 1910 2 PLAC Buckingham,Palace,London,England 1 BURI 2 DATE Friday, 20th May 1910 2 PLAC Windsor,Berkshire,England 1 FAMS @F2@ 1 FAMC @F1@ 1 RIN 2 Can anybody else confirm this? I'd like to propose that this become King of England M Tuesday, 9th November 1841 Buckingham,Palace,London,England 3) A warning: the first element doesn't have to be level zero. Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm