From: Jacob Fugal Date: 2006-04-19T00:47:14+09:00 Subject: Re: anybody working on GEDCOM data? On 4/18/06, Wybo Dekker wrote: > Is anybody working on GEDCOM-formatted genealogy data? > (thinking of making a GEDCOM editor) Posted on behalf of Hans Fugal... [1] [quote] The quiz stuff [mentioned by Dave Burt] might make a good start, but -- with perhaps an exception or two -- most of it is specific to the quiz, and not as general as you'd want for a gedcom lib. Jamis Buck has an old project from his ruby youth[2] to do gedcom parsing. Jamis and I were working on a rewrite at one point. It's not hard to make a basic gedcom parser, either sax style or dom style, and I could probably do it in a weekend, but performance optimization would be another story. When I wrote one in C++ (or was it Java?) when doing research at the University it was terribly slow due to dynamic memory allocation issues. Ruby may be better than my naive dynamic memory allocation code, but I imagine you could still make mistakes to cause problems with memory management. I have all the docs necessary and would be happy to point people in the right direction and/or mentor any efforts. [/quote] Jacob Fugal [1] Hans reads through the newsgroup, and apparently the gateway is broken, since he didn't see this message. This is a minor editing of what he told me and asked to have posted to the mailing list after I pointed the thread out to him. You can contact him directly at hans@fugal.net [2] http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/gedcom-ruby/