gedcom

gedcom

Go package to parse GEDCOM files.

Usage

The package provides a Decoder with a single Decode method that returns a Gedcom struct. Use the NewDecoder method to create a new decoder.

This example shows how to parse a GEDCOM file and list all the individuals. In this example the entire input file is read into memory, but the decoder is streaming so it should be able to deal with very large files: just pass an appropriate Reader.

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"github.com/iand/gedcom"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {
	data, _ := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/kennedy.ged")

	d := gedcom.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data))

	g, _ := d.Decode()

	for _, rec := range g.Individual {
		if len(rec.Name) > 0 {
			println(rec.Name[0].Name)
		}			
	}
}

The structures produced by the Decoder are in types.go and correspond roughly 1:1 to the structures in the GEDCOM specification.

This package does not implement the entire GEDCOM specification, I'm still working on it. It's about 80% complete which is enough for about 99% of GEDCOM files. It has not been extensively tested with non-ASCII character sets nor with pathological cases such as the [http://www.geditcom.com/gedcom.html](GEDCOM 5.5 Torture Test Files).

Installation

Simply run

go get github.com/iand/gedcom

Documentation is at http://godoc.org/github.com/iand/gedcom

Authors

• Ian Davis - http://iandavis.com/

Contributors

Contributing

• Do submit your changes as a pull request
• Do your best to adhere to the existing coding conventions and idioms.
• Do run go fmt on the code before committing
• Do feel free to add yourself to the CREDITS file and the corresponding Contributors list in the README.md. Alphabetical order applies.
• Don't touch the AUTHORS file. An existing author will add you if your contributions are significant enough.
• Do note that in order for any non-trivial changes to be merged (as a rule of thumb, additions larger than about 15 lines of code), an explicit Public Domain Dedication needs to be on record from you. Please include a copy of the statement found in the WAIVER file with your pull request

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.