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One difficult thing here is that users of products like RootsMagic, and especially those who have expanded the included set of 400+ templates to the 1100+ mentioned in EE, will expect that they're supported by the standard, while at the same time our costs to support those are too high, like I already found out ...

Louis, thanks. I see that Tony has returned from Italy too. You may have seen that on the FHISO list, I criticized the use of source types as a selector for templates. You mention 170 types in the Yates EE-style templates, and I wrote that ESM lists 1100+ record types on the EE site, and assuming that those ...

Louis, thanks for elaborating things in your text. You'd probably need to buy a new marker if it were real.

Oh BTW, something's weird in the registration. Tony appears to be from Italy, and I'm from Poland. :-)

About #4: In an international environment, which is what the FHISO says to address, citation elements MUST be standardized, just like the existing GEDCOM tags. As native English speakers, you both seem to forget about that, but IMO it is essential for a standard to work. Like the fixed column names in a ...