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fire-eggs / YAGP

"Yet Another GEDCOM Parser" - newer/faster/complete GEDCOM parser in C#
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Idea: simple GED parse #54

Open fire-eggs opened 6 years ago

fire-eggs commented 6 years ago

A casual genealogist may only be interested in people, families, and basic events (birth, death, marriage). Consider a "simple" parsing mode where other records, and other data, are simply ignored by the parser.

The "time line" project is one. Also motivated by a post in Stack Overflow where the author found Gedcom.Net to be "too complex", and was only interested in people/families to generate a tree.

Should have the option of skipping some validation.

fire-eggs commented 6 years ago

I found [Gedcom.Net] too. this could also be my complete lack experience but the class structure seems pretty complex.

The user only wanted Name, Sex, Birthday and (IsDead?) info for INDIs, and the family connection (child/parent) in a family. For their purpose, the FAM connections were sufficient (though I've found some genealogy programs inconsistent in their FAM/INDI connections). They did not take into account BIRT/CHR/BAPM for birthday, nor date formatting.

Yes, any full-gedcom-support class structure is complex. For a "simple" application, I could see wanting to access a limited data set. On the parsing side, skipping other records/sub-records could make reading really fast. A naive programmer would not be aware of the complexities of GEDCOM and would fail to take many subtleties into account.