Re: description of the XML format of Dia

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:05, NAUDIN Alexia wrote:
> Hi guys !
> 
> My name is Alexia and I'm new in the mailing list. I'm doing a work
> placement and my task is to developp a tool that would generate
> network diagrams automatically, using snmp requests.
> 
> I'm going to use DIA to draw the diagrams, therefore I need to know
> the description of the XML format of Dia.
> I had a look on the official web site but couldn't find it. Maybe can
> you help me ? Unless someone already wrote something that would
> generates XML Dia format files ?... :)

Alan and Cyrille have already given the most important Dia pointers, but
you will probably also need to do some layout automatically.  Dia right
now only has very minimal auto-layout support (zig-zag lines will orient
correctly:).  AutoDia has some layout functionality built into it, I
have not recently checked the state of it.  The GraphViz toolkit is
*the* place to go for autolayout, but has no manual editing features. 
And I am of course open to patches that implement autolayout features in
Dia.

Please don't hesitate to ask us questions, we will answer you as best we
can.

-Lars