Dear Steven:
The code is currently in an SVN repo on XP-Dev. I could make the repo
public, but the code in its current stage is definitely what I call work
bench code. It works and does the task for which it is designed, but, even
though I plan to use it for a long time, the code was written with the idea
that it would not leave my workbench. The next step up would be
production-ready code.
I liken this kind of code to the improvised and one-off tools my carpenter
and machinists friends have. The tools work and work well, but the tools
were not made with the intent to distribute beyond their work-shop.
Production of code (or tools) requires you to factor in many maintenance and
support factors that the workbench tools don't have.
But, just like I can borrow the custom work-bench vise my machinist friend
has, I can certainly share this bit of work bench code. Let me collect up
the pieces into a ZIP archive.
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:wood...@swoodbridge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 9:49 AM
To: j...@washburnresearch.org
Cc: perl-gedcom@perl.org; 'Ron Savage'
Subject: Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released
Hi John,
Yes, I would love to get that and I'm willing to share my code once I have
time to fix the most critical issues.
Maybe Paul would like to create a contrib directory in the repository that
could be used to make code like this available. I guess we could all make
public repos on github if we have code to contribute but I think that makes
it harder to find it. And/or we could create wiki
page(s) that describes these contrib items and how to use them.
Anyway, please send your code when you get a chance. It might be a month
+- before I get to look at it and give it a try.
Thanks,
-Steve
On 1/1/2013 10:37 AM, John Washburn wrote:
Dear Stephen:
I have a perl program that walks the HTML pages of e-FamilyTree.net
and pipes it out to a GEDCOM file. It is also interruptible in that
you can run the program for a while, stop it and upon restart it will
pick up where the search left off.
It uses the HTML:Tree builder and the wonderful look-down
functionality mentioned by Ron. It also used Date::Manip quite heavily.
I would be happy to zip up the code and send the archive to you if you
are interested. The code is a bit bloated because the code grew over
time and I had to add special cases for some of the errors in the
e-familynet HTML structure and to implement the 1-generation look ahead.
-Original Message-
From: Ron Savage [mailto:r...@savage.net.au]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:06 PM
To: perl-gedcom@perl.org
Subject: Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released
Hi Stephen
On 30/12/12 11:03, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
On 12/29/2012 5:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
What I noticed was that the data way nicely tag in the HTML so I am
writing a parser to read the HTML can generate a Gedcom file. I have
the basics working, but I have to do more work on it to fix bugs and
collect more of the data than I current am. I'm side tracked with
work at the moment so it is on hold. When I'm done it will have
generated a
40K+ person Gedcom file. This should be able able to create a gedcom
from any Second Site generated website assuming it is similar to
the link above. Or you can ask the site owner for a copy of the
gedcom :), but this seemed like a worth challenge at the time.
Are you using HTML::TreeBuilder and the v-e-r-y nice look_down() method?
--
Ron Savage
http://savage.net.au/
Ph: 0421 920 622
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