Re: Proposed plugin: Export via XSLT!

[Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov calixo net>]

Le sam, sep 08, 2001, à 04:17:57 -0700, Bret Mogilefsky a écrit:

> This looks like a good first project for me to learn a whole bunch of
> stuff... Before I start working on this, I wanted to know if anyone else is
> already doing it (looks like no from the CVS tree).  At the moment I'm
> planning to throw it together using libxslt. I assume there's no problem
> adding that lib since Dia already depends on libxml... 

Since dia's native file format is based on XML (until 0.89 is out, it's not 
really XML because of a mishandling of charset encoding), perhaps your
generator may be prototyped as a standalone XSLT processor (ie, give it a
dia file and an XSL sheet, and it spits out some output) ? (it's my total
ignorant's understanding of how XSL/XSLT is supposed to work). 

Also, not being in dia proper right now would give you an interesting
freedom: the freedom to use libxml2 instead of the broken dead code we
have to stick to for the moment. 

Of course, if that XSL approach proves workable, better integration through a
dia export plug-in won't be really difficult (it would also rock to use the
same approach to handle import as well...) and will be highly desirable. 

	-- Cyrille

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Grumpf.