The library might or might not be plugged into your favorite genealogical-application. But as long as you have your family data available in a gedcom file, you can always use the library on a command line.
The ovals in the diagram on the overview page represent the main classes of the library that can be executed from a command line. Below a partial example of such a command line. Replace the dots (…) with the files from the same diagram. Put the output file last; the order of rule files is significant: they may need the results of a previous one.
See also the notes on the configuration files.
java -Xmx1024M -cp unzipped/gedcom2sem-XXX.jar gedcom2sem.semweb.Select ...
The downloads provide complete
examples
in their roots, the contents of the zip and the tar.gz are identical.
The bat
files are for Windows: simply double-click them.
The
sh files are for Mac/Unix: open a terminal,
go to the directory with the unpacked sh files, assign execute rigths (chmod +x *.sh
)
and run a command (for example: ./convert.sh
).
On both platforms you can merge and adjust the files with a plain text editor.
Thus you can configure the output you want with the input you have.
See also these examples expressed in java JUnit
tests.