This is a simple HTML viewer for geneaology files written in the GEDCOM format.
It works by converting the GED file to XML, and then using an XML Stylesheet to render that to an HTML page.
An example stylesheet (inventory.xslt) is provided.
- Install git. The Windows version has many options, but choosing the defaults should be fine.
- Move to a new directory in command prompt (Windows) or a shell. You’ll be checking out this project into a subdirectory of the directory you choose.
- Check out the source code using
git clone https://github.com/ipsin/gedcom.git - Put your GED file in the same “gedcom” directory (for convenience)
- Open devel.html in a web browser. On Windows 10+ if your username is “Foo” the URL would be file:///C:/Users/Foo/git/gedcom/devel.html
- Use the “Choose file” button for “Select Stylesheet” and choose
inventory.xslt - Use the “Choose file” button and select the GED file. What should appear then is the transformed dump of the GED file in HTML.
- To re-run the transformation, reload the page and select again.