FamilySearch/GEDCOM v7.0.14

Version 7.0.14

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Recommend that NO XYZ only be used where XYZ is permitted (its meaning is undefined elsewhere).

Recommend that a given INDI have at most one FAMC pointing to a given FAM (having more than one has unclear meaning); and likewise that a given FAM have at most one CHIL pointing to a given INDI (having more than one indicates nonsensical birth order).

Refactor presentation of local files to better match related RFCs and only make implementable constraints, and to use its own <FilePath> datatype instead of <Special>. This does not change FILE payloads, only how they are specified to better support automated tooling.

Refactor the enumeration tags CENS, EVEN, FACT, NCHI, and RESI to have different URIs, removing a previous parsing ambiguity. This changes neither the set of tags permitted in any enumeration set nor those tags' meaning, only how they are specified to better support automated tooling.

Deprecate extension-defined substructures using stdTag in a way incompatible with any standard definition of that tag. The now-deprecated use was common in 5.5.1 and is permitted in 7.0, but can prevent extension structures from being adopted as-is as new standard structures in future versions of the specification.

Clarify that the "applies to" and "status" columns of g7:enumset-ord-STAT are recommendations, not restrictions.

Clarify that AGE values may be larger than any calendar supports. This was always permitted; that fact is now called out more clearly.

Clarify that records cannot be relocated standard structures. This was always incompatible with the definition of relocated standard structures; that fact is now called out more clearly.

Various typo corrections.