Re: Create and individual with a specific xref?

Paul,

Awesome! I just installed Gedcom 1.17, modified my script, and kicked 
off another run. This will read 1345 html pages with 30 individuals with 
their related family groups per page and builds a gedcom file from all 
of that with over 40000 people in it.

It takes 1.5GB of memory and about 1.5 hours to process it all and 
generate the gedcom file. I think the only thing that I have left to do 
with this is to add the source definition and then link the source to 
all the individuals, family groups and notes.

It is designed to parse a "Second Site" generated web site[1], but I'm 
sure there are additional bells and widgets that can be added to this 
that the site I'm grabbing does not use.

I think it would be great to create another program that, can read a 
gedcom file and generate a "Second Site" like set of html pages. I have 
a genealogy website the I build for my data [1][2], but it is all 
dynamically generated pages from a database. I use Gedcom.pm to load my 
database. But generating linked static pages that can be put on a DVD 
for distribute has a lot of value. So I might tackle this in the near 
future.

Thanks,
   -Steve

[1] http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/index.htm
[2] http://swoodbridge.com/family/Woodbridge/
[3] http://swoodbridge.com/family/WoodbridgeRecord/

On 1/11/2013 3:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 08:07:08PM +0100, Mikkel Eide Eriksen wrote:
>> Hi Steve
>>
>> AFAIK the gedcom standard does not impose any restrictions on whether an app may modify an xref, so there's no guarantee that an xref will survive being opened in "some app". You're probably only using your own code for these files, though, so that might not be an issue. Anyway, maybe you can use one of the following tags:
>>
>>      +1 RFN <PERMANENT_RECORD_FILE_NUMBER>  {0:1}
>>      +1 REFN <USER_REFERENCE_NUMBER>  {0:M}
>>        +2 TYPE <USER_REFERENCE_TYPE>  {0:1}
>>      +1 RIN <AUTOMATED_RECORD_ID>  {0:1}
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mikkel
>>
>> On 11/01/2013, at 15.46, Stephen Woodbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to create and individual and set the xref to a specific value?
>>>
>>> The use case for this is to maintain consistent references between various files and/or when the xref is used as a persistent reference for a web application.
>>>
>>> For example, I am parsing some web pages that use the xref for individuals in the url. I would like to maintain these in the Gedcom file I create so when I later regenerate the pages I can maintain the same url to individuals relationship.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>
> But if you're talking about Gedcom.pm, in versions previous to 1.17 you
> could add a parameter to add_individual which would be the xref you
> wanted.
>
> Now forget all that.  I had never documented it, and in 1.17 I changed
> it and added some documentation:
>
>    Normally you will not want to pass any arguments to the function.  Those
>    functions which have an xref (ie not header or trailer) accept an optional
>    first argument { xref => $x } which will use $x as the xref rather than
>    letting the module automatically choose the xref.
>
> So now you can call:
>
>    my $individual = $ged->add_individual({ xref => "I123" });
>
> There's an example using add_note() in t/ged_create.t
>
> This is less than a fortnight old, so if you go this way you may be the
> first person to use this feature.
>