Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released

Hi John,

Yes, I would love to get that and I'm willing to share my code once I 
have time to fix the most critical issues.

Maybe Paul would like to create a "contrib" directory in the repository 
that could be used to make code like this available. I guess we could 
all make public repos on github if we have code to contribute but I 
think that makes it harder to find it. And/or we could create wiki 
page(s) that describes these contrib items and how to use them.

Anyway, please send your code when you get a chance. It might be a month 
+- before I get to look at it and give it a try.

Thanks,
   -Steve

On 1/1/2013 10:37 AM, John Washburn wrote:
> Dear Stephen:
>
> I have a perl program that walks the HTML pages of e-FamilyTree.net and
> pipes it out to a GEDCOM file.  It is also interruptible in that you can run
> the program for a while, stop it and upon restart it will pick up where the
> search left off.
>
> It uses the HTML:Tree builder and the wonderful look-down functionality
> mentioned by Ron.  It also used Date::Manip quite heavily.
>
> I would be happy to zip up the code and send the archive to you if you are
> interested.  The code is a bit bloated because the code grew over time and I
> had to add special cases for some of the errors in the e-familynet HTML
> structure and to implement the 1-generation look ahead.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Savage [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released
>
> 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?
>
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