Re: XML

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

arron
Right on. Tell me if you need any help.
I am looking to produce a new release of vcg.
lets work out some api. Take a look at redland
http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/
mike
--- Aaron Trevena <autodia@droogs.org> wrote:
> > From: John Edstrom <edstrom@teleport.com>
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:40:24PM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote:
> > > > I'm thinking of spitting out some data as digraphs.  I looked
> at the
> > > > xml output from simple graphs and think that I can figure it
> all out,
> > > > but I'd rather spare myself the learning experience.
> > >
> > > Have you looked at the various programs available in the Links
> section of
> > > the webpage?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, but only briefly.  I"m still just casing the joint at this
> point.
> > AutoDia is the closest that I've seen to what I want, but I'm not
> > really interested in UML.
> 
> Cool - what else would you be interested in. I happen to be hacking
> autodia this weekend and am working on dia->graphviz and vice versa.
> Hopefully I can use similar code/logic to allow graphviz, argouml and
> dia
> to interact.
> 
> As far as most of the autodia code is concerned diagrams are just
> diagrams containing nodes and relationships - its should be easy
> enough to
> add some classes or re-organise the internals so that different
> diagrams
> with different types of nodes and edges can be produced/processed.
> 
> > Layout is my main concern, more than rendering or manipulation.  I
> use
> > the perl Graph::Directed module which, happily enough, writes xml
> > and/or 'dot' files ( from the graphviz package).  With the right
> > arguments dot will figure out a reasonably well-balanced layout for
> > the digraph and dump the coordinates of the nodes and edges.
> 
> I have just been looking at this, I have already done some simple
> calculations to work out aproximate coords for dia diagrams that
> autodia
> uses already.
> 
> > I figure it shouldn't be too difficult to convert or rescale the
> > dot-calculated coordinates into dia coordinates which would give me
> a
> > better renderer of the same graph.  If that's the case then my
> strategy
> > is to convert from dot >>-> ( xml | xsl ) >>-> dia.xml.
> 
> Hopefully autodia 1.4 will allow for dia ( not laid out) -> dot ->
> dia
> (laid out). I don't know how much time you have to hack perl - but it
> would probably be easier to transform dot to dia using perl than XSLT
> which is unwieldy for most tasks beyond rss to html.
> 
> Anyone wanting to discuss dia related tools like autodia might want
> to
> email me off list, as I would like to set up a site / list for such
> topics. I hope that connecting users and develoeprs of graphviz, dia,
> argouml and the like would make for cooler tools and better
> integration.
> Failing that I can just use everybodies code in my plan to take over
> the
> world *cough*.
> 
> regards,
> 
> A.
> 
> -- 
> Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant
> AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++
> and Any Datasource with a Handler.     http://droogs.org/autodia
> 
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James Michael DuPont
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