Possible semantic contradictions in maximal.ged

[tychonievich]

In maximal.ged, we have

• Semantic contradictions
  • FAM F1 has both ANUL Y and NO ANUL without a date, asserting both "there was an annulment" and "there wasn't an annulment"
  • INDI I1 has both EMIG and NO EMIG without a date, asserting both "there was an emigration" and "there wasn't an emigration"

• Semantically-void structures

  • Many ASSO @VOID@ with no PHRASE substructure, as e.g. (omitting some lines)

    0 @I1 INDI
    1 DEAT
    2 ASSO @VOID@
    3 ROLE PARENT
    2 NOTE Note Text

    This appears to say "someone was a parent of the deceased," a self-evidently true statement. There are many other similar examples throughout maximal.ged. They also seem to violate the spirit of the spec saying

    A voidPtr and PHRASE can be used to describe associations to people not referenced by any INDI record.

• Meaningless structures
  • FAM F1 has a SUBM @VOID@ and OBJE @VOID@ with no substructures
  • INDI I1 has a NAME.SNOTE @VOID@ and ALIA @VOID@ with no substructures

We could leave these, arguing that the file is not designed to be sensible, just to exercise every part of the spec. But I think I would support parsers that flag these as errors and/or as prunable zero-information structures, and hence rather not have them in maximal.ged

[tychonievich]

Discussed 2023-07-13 While all of these are odd, none of them violate the spec and may be found in real files.