Re: XML

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote:
> 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.

I've been looking a tiny bit at reading annotated dot files.  That'd be
quite useful indeed.

-Lars

-- 
Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I   |----------------------------
will defend to the death your right to say it."   | Where are we going, and
    --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire  | what's with the handbasket?