Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released

[email protected] (Stephen Woodbridge) Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:17:36 -0500
Newsgroups perl.gedcom
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.