Taken from the latest issue of EASTMANS GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER - XML version of GEDCOM About a year ago, I wrote two articles about the LDS Church's adoption of XML for use in future GEDCOM releases. I wrote, "Randy Bryson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that the Church is now standardizing on the XML programming language for all future software products." You can read those two articles at: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/3396.asp and http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/3438.asp. In the first of those two articles, I wrote, "None of this exists today. Randy Bryson's announcement simply indicates a future course. I suspect it will be two years or even longer before the new XML format is in place and in use. However, the benefits will justify the wait." It has been a bit more than a year since those words were written. Now the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has posted a draft of the specification on the Internet for review and comment. This draft is not a complete document, which is still under development. It should not be considered as a working specification. The authors of the draft welcome comments and suggestions. The contact information is contained with the document. The GEDCOM 6.0 draft is in Adobe Acrobat format. You can access it at: http://www.familysearch.org/GEDCOM/GedXML60.pdf Radio