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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Introduction
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:14:13 +0000
References: <424F54BE.5070708@austin.rr.com><003301c53861$18c64f80$5d0d1540@ZOHAR>
In-Reply-To: <003301c53861$18c64f80$5d0d1540@ZOHAR>


At 03:23 PM 4/3/2005, Zohar Laor wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elizabeth Churchett [mailto:]
>>> If you are seeking something searchable or a way to put your
>information
>>>on the web in the hopes of making contact with others, then I think
>you
>>>are looking for Second Site
>
>Thanks Elizabeth, I'm sure Second Site is a great utility, but I'm a
>computer programmer and specialize in Internet databases, so when I have
>time (stop for laughter), I intend to write a website that will display
>certain information for the public, and the personal information will be
>password protected for family members only.
>
>I'm still in the analysis and design stage, and haven't even looked yet
>into reading the gedcom file or TMG database.
>
>Z.

Hi, Zohar:

As another programmer once said, "You are only as good as the code that you steal." Before you get carried away writing your own, I think you should still look at Second Site. If you create a custom XSTL Format, which would work with Second Site's intermediate XML output, you can skip selecting and extracting the data, and go straight to arranging, and differentially hiding, anything you want.

To make that approach work, you need only make sure, in TMG, that you create separate Tag Types for the "personal" information, and enter the data accordingly. The XSTL can process based on Tag Type. And this is not the only, nor even necessarily the best, approach, that is available. As a Web programmer, you can probably make the XSTL jump through hoops.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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