RE: GEDCOM to Wiki, anyone?

Hi,

I did some preliminary work on exactly this quite some years back. I think I
can claim to know the Paul's (excellent) Gedcom module pretty well, having
used it to generate custom charts, etc.

How it started: I received a very extensive family tree file from a relative
- all in Microsoft Word format. The format was wildly inconsistent, and
parsing it into Gedcom format was painful - a lot just had to be done by
hand.

Next step was what Jim seeks - generating Wiki pages. It's actually not that
hard at all: the major issues are just design and layout choices. 

But there's a huge problem to which I could find no answer; what happens
when somebody makes a change? These should update the Gedcom file, which
would often have a flow-on effect to the rest of the Wiki, which would need
regenerating.

The Wiki format is by nature free-form, and so strict validation of edits
would be required.

I used MediaWiki, but I see that DokuWiki "makes sure the datafiles remain
readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts", so it
looks a much better choice.

Sorry I couldn't give Jim a more positive and useful response -

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Seymour [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 3:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: GEDCOM to Wiki, anyone?

Hello, all.  I'm new to this list - and don't know if I'm talking to one 
person or a thousand...

I run a DokuWiki-based genealogy site at http://s560.com and would like 
to generate Wiki pages based on GEDCOM files.

I see this as a one-time conversion project and perl seemed the right 
solution - which is how I found Paul Johnson's Gedcom module at CPAN and 
this list.

Has anyone attempted such a conversion before?  If so, do you have any 
pointers?  If not, do you have any advice on how to start?

-- 
Jim Seymour