Re: XML Schema, XML parsing stuff, C++ (not!)

2001-06-25 Thread Andre Kloss
Just to clear things up a bit: 1. Let's use DTDs, as libxml supports them. If you need to write Schemas or whatever else, feel free, but don't expect us to use them until libxml uses them. 2. Let's use C and no C++, as I don't like mixing up the 2 and I don't see what using C++ can do for bringin

Reoccurring issue: arrows

2001-06-25 Thread Sebastian Fischmeister
Hello. All of the developers are doing a really great job in improving dia and coding new features. But there is one issue that's in dia since the very first days: Draw a line, select the filled-triangle arrowhead, and set the line width to at least 0.5. See it? I already started constructing m

C vs. C++: Deeper thoughts (Was: UrShape XML parser)

2001-06-25 Thread Andre Kloss
Hi folks. Sorry for writing a longer email, but I think it will get more useful on the last lines... > 1. [What is a UrShape?] The UrShape can contain SVG, Text or a collection of other Shapes (Or UrShapes, if you prefer). We will have it stored in XML and I write the parser that moves the stuff

Re: dia2shape

2001-06-25 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, James K. Lowden wrote: > All, > > The whole shape proposal discussion led me to another notion I don't > recall having seen discussed. > > It seems to me it should be possible to use Dia to create Dia shapes. > > What needed is enough information in a Dia diagram to create

Re: Reoccurring issue: arrows

2001-06-25 Thread Lars Clausen
On 25 Jun 2001, Sebastian Fischmeister wrote: > Hello. > > All of the developers are doing a really great job in improving dia > and coding new features. But there is one issue that's in dia since > the very first days: > > Draw a line, select the filled-triangle arrowhead, and set the line > w

Re: C vs. C++: Deeper thoughts (Was: UrShape XML parser)

2001-06-25 Thread Lennon Day-Reynolds
Okay, this seems to have gotten kind of disjointed; let me try to reiterate why I was pushing for the particular features and implementation I described earlier, and respond to some of the posts made over the weekend. 1. I have to agree with the crowd that is resisting the use of C++. I'm an

LSM/RMLL in Bordeaux, France

2001-06-25 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Hi all, quite a quiet week (aside from the interesting UrShape discussion)... a few things: 1) nobody answered to my plea for gettext-0.10.38. I guess this means there are no objections. I've just re-gettextized my tree, I'll commit when it's both compiled and correct (shouldn't be a p

Re: Lennon's Deep thoughts

2001-06-25 Thread Andre Kloss
Hi there. > Okay, this seems to have gotten kind of disjointed. Agreed. Well, you want XML? In what color? Oh, never mind. ;) > 1. [no C++] Couldn't have put it better. > 2. [Schemas] Ok, can we just say, that some of the data is integer or float (maybe by defining an "integer" or "float" entit