Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released
[email protected] (Stephen Woodbridge) Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:17:36 -0500
| Newsgroups | perl.gedcom |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 12/29/2012 11:06 PM, Ron Savage wrote: > Hi Stephen > > On 30/12/12 11:03, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: >> On 12/29/2012 5:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> What I noticed was that the data way nicely tag in the HTML so I am >> writing a parser to read the HTML can generate a Gedcom file. I have the >> basics working, but I have to do more work on it to fix bugs and collect >> more of the data than I current am. I'm side tracked with work at the >> moment so it is on hold. When I'm done it will have generated a 40K+ >> person Gedcom file. This should be able able to create a gedcom from any >> "Second Site" generated website assuming it is similar to the link >> above. Or you can ask the site owner for a copy of the gedcom :), but >> this seemed like a worth challenge at the time. > > Are you using HTML::TreeBuilder and the v-e-r-y nice look_down() method? > Yes, very nice tool! makes it soo easy to parse HTML.