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FamWeb or Family Web is a Perl script for reading and displaying
GedCom files. I intend to keep the script open for other people,
but so far I do not feel that my Perl expierence and the quality
of the script is high enough for publishing.
The FamWeb version is controlled by RCS - here is the ID tag:
$Id: famweb.pl,v 1.9 2001/01/17 16:59:50 martin Exp $
FamWeb currently have the following ways to present GedCom information
to the user:
- Detailed Information
Detailed information is things like name, birth
date, death date, spouse, children, parents, siblings etc.
- Family Tree
A family tree is a graphical way to show how people are
related. Currently the tree representation is showing the
spouse(s), children, birth date, death date and the same
information for all children and their child... and so on.
- Raw format
FamWeb can also show the raw GedCom records. This is mainly
usable to an administrator, but can also be usefull for the
user who want to see if there is extra information in the
GedCom file which FamWeb do not decode.
FamWeb is made all the way from the bottom for supporting
multiple languages - my version support english and danish -
since families move around in the world. Unfortunately I
found that GedCom files were incapable of supporting multiple
languages in one file (the char set is difficult enough).
FamWeb can also show pictures - actually in two ways, but
both are incompatible with the GedCom format!
Why? - The answer is easy but long...
First I wanted to support the embedded pictures (objects)
from the GedCom
format, but then I learned that the format used a non standard
BASE64 encoding which would make it more complicated for
me to implement than the standard BASE64 encoding. I said
to myself that I first make a MIME/BASE64 encoding since
they are so common in e-mails and then the correct one.
After having done the first one and surfed the web for more
GedCom information I learned that authors of the GedCom format
wanted to remove this feature from the file format in the future,
since almost no programs are using it.
See now I wanted to support external files (pictures placed in
another directory), but because of the language problem and the
embedded object problem I choose to ignore all standard ways of
doing it, and introduced a special FORM tag called file! (the
file type can be understood from the extension!).
If you would like a copy of the script(s) for FamWeb or if
you have any comments to FamWeb, then feel free to contact
me on martin@djernaes.dk.
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