I agree, Paul, and that's pretty much what I've done. My basis is a Person object, with associated display, and navigation by clicking on any of the names shown - e.g., Father, Mother, Child, Spouse etc. As you say, each person is the same pattern.
My big breakthrough was defining a ShowPerson method that SQL selects into a one-record cursor, which is displayed/updated instead of trying to run around in the main file. Dan On 8/31/2010 7:10 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > On 8/31/10 6:36 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: >> Do you see a better method for presentation of this complicated data? > > I think it should be objectified. As you noted it is the same pattern > throughout. I > just don't think it calls for XML, the continual parsing of which seems > unnecessarily > heavy. > > XML seems to me like a great export/import format for data. And it works as a > means > to move presentation data over a network, say from a web service to a web > page in an > Ajax situation, but it doesn't seem to me to be the best format even in that > case. > > Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
