Having written the diatribe about XML, now I'm asking if anyone can point me to either software apps, or utilities that use XML-compliant file/schema which help deal with genealogy data? I'm not looking for format translators, but rather something that uses an XML format file and is applicable to genealogy/family history. Thanks.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:01:21 GMT, JDverizon.net> wrote: >Having written the diatribe about XML I suppose I should dig around, but perhaps something might be clarified for me. I thought that XML was a proprietary standard (ie Microsoft), rather than a proper standard for all such as GEDCOM. So should not we avoid a proprietary standard? Cheers, Tom [Tom Perrett] <tomp@st.net.au>

JD <jd4x4@ wrote: > Having written the diatribe about XML, now I'm asking if anyone can point > me to either software apps, or utilities that use XML-compliant file/schema > which help deal with genealogy data? > > I'm not looking for format translators, but rather something that uses an > XML format file and is applicable to genealogy/family history. > > Thanks. > I understand that Gramps at http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page used XML as its database format in earlier versions. It now uses RDBMS internally but will still import and export XML. This is more or less the pair of choices I'd have made for myself. I might not, however, have chosen Berkeley DB as the database as not only is it not SQL-based, it isn't, as I understand it, suitable for storing its data on networked drives. It's the package I use but it's still far from what I'd like to have available. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk