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: perl-gedcom@perl.org 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
