Re: Create and individual with a specific xref?

Paul,

FYI, that worked great! If anyone is interested in the script or the 
gedcom file let me know and I can post a link for it.

Thanks,
   -Steve

On 1/11/2013 5:17 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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.
>>
>