The GEDCOM standard does not exploit the power of publishing genealogical
information to the web.
Routines like GED2HTML do not generate good looking pages.
I understand the dangers of veering from the spec, but I have found to my
own experience that GEDCOM is kind of lacking in several areas.
To this end, I prefer to maintain my ever growing genealogical database in
XML and not GEDCOM. I can still import from, and export to the GEDCOM
format. I have richer content, and can easily manage features like image
galleries, email, hypertext links, and especially the geography aspect of
the relationship between villages, towns, countries and people.
I have encompassed pedigree charts to a certain extent using HTML tables,
but I would be the first to admit it is a bit of a cludge.
http://www.gingell.com/ancframe.html
I would like to see GedML add value to GEDCOM, especially in the areas of
web publishing.
Regards
Craig Gingell
http://www.gingell.com - a website dedicated to anything and everything
Gingell
http://www.gingell.com/data/gingell.txt - my XML genealogy file