User talk:Dallan/SourceExtractor

download [12 August 2012]

Hi Dallan,

I would love to try this package, but when I click to download the jar and txt, I see an empty page.

I really need some kind of extractor to see all the text blocks that I have in my PAF file, i.e. notes and sources, because a lot of information got mixed up somewhere, and I find it very difficult to get an overview of that.

What I'm thinking of right now is an app that extracts texts, and presents them like this:

@I1@/NOTE: ...

@F1@/NOTE: ...

Or more complicated things like these:

@I4@/BIRT/SOUR @S7@/NOTE: ...

@I238@/DEAT/SOUR @S8625@/DATA/TEXT: ...

And from the sources themselves:

@S114@/NOTE: ...

@S285@/TEXT: ...

Well, you know where this is going to. I find pieces of text with CONT lines everywhere, even in source titles that were originally made in Brother's Keeper long ago.

I used path expressions here, because I'm used to them from XML parsing, and found that the LDS occasionally uses those (with dots) in GEDCOM documentation.

cheers

Enno 09:37, 12 August 2012 (EDT)