Greetings, All! I've been toying around with XML parsing, and I've used Dia shape as a guinea pig. This gave me some ideas, but first, a question: Where's the Dia DTD's are located nowadays? http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns seems to be down, and has been down for quite a while.
Now, to the shapes themselves. I think, people subscribed to the list had seen this (well, similar) one <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns"; xmlns:dia="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> <name>Custom - Styles mix</name> <svg svg:width="300px" svg:height="300px" svg:viewBox="0 0 3 3"> <circle dia:style="stroke: foreground;" svg:style="fill: yellow; fill-opacity: 255; stroke-width: 0.1; stroke-dasharray: 1 0.75; stroke-dashoffset: .5;" cx="1.5" cy="1.5" r="0.5"/> </svg> </shape> This was posted as a proposed concept to the request about separating decoration colors from diagram object properties. Now, how about this one? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE shape PUBLIC "-//Dia//DTD Dia shape 1.0//EN" "http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";> <shape xmlns:dia="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> <name>Custom - Styles mix</name> <?dia python.script();?> <svg svg:width="300px" svg:height="300px" svg:viewBox="0 0 3 3"> <circle dia:style="stroke: foreground;" svg:style="fill: yellow; fill-opacity: 255; stroke-width: 0.1; stroke-dasharray: 1 0.75; stroke-dashoffset: .5;" cx="1.5" cy="1.5" r="0.5"/> </svg> </shape> Advantages are quite many. 1. Upfront valid XML. 2. Clear separation of object design from object attributes. 3. Embedded scripting! Seriously. XML lets you embed parsing instructions! -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, February 15, 2016 09:59:40 Sorry for my terrible english... _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
