On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:40:24PM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to Dia. I like that it's output is ( can be ) in xml. What > > I'm wondering is, is there a DTD or a fairly detailed description of > > the elements, their allowed attributes, how namespaces are used, etc.? > > I didn't see such a document while I was poking around on the site & > > the twiki XML topic is unbegun. > > The DTD is in the doc directory of the tarball. I don't think we have a > more detailed description around.
I got my dia as a binary .rpm and the DTD didn't come with it. I just DLed the source and the DTDs are there. Thanks. > > > 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. Right now I'm building automatons which can get pretty complex. 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 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. > -Lars > -- John Edstrom _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
