Hi Paul
On 31/12/12 08:19, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:13:53AM +0100, Mikkel Eide Eriksen wrote:
On 30/12/2012, at 05.08, Ron Savage<r...@savage.net.au> wrote:
On 30/12/12 13:46, Philip Durbin wrote:
GEDCOMX seemed to arrive full of bluster, Java and XML, and gave the
impression that the only unsolved problems were things like deciding how
to store the XML and then just finishing the programming. That was
rather uninteresting to me.
Far more interesting was the data model, and despite the programming
going on, GEDCOMX didn't seem to have that nailed down. And as far as
it was exposed, it didn't really seem to build on any of the other work
that had taken place in this area over the last decade or so.
I'm impressed by the amount of work which has been done, and a bit
disconcerted where it ties in to Java. I do see the attempt to adopt
material from the Java world, and elsewhere, but the link to Java seems
a bit too tight for my liking.
Likewise adopting the Zip format, as its max size limitations become
more and more apparent, given their comment about (optionally) storing
everything in a single file (if I understood that, of course).
Overall though, I'm worried if they haven't over-specified things, in
classic Java style, which leaves me feeling there may have to be a
auxiliary spec answering the question: What are they really saying (at
each point)? This would collapse several layers of definitions, if needed.
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Ron Savage
http://savage.net.au/
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