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Re: XML to diagram & layout engine -- (was: Re: XML to diagram)

From: "Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>
To: "discussions about usage and development of dia" <dia-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: XML to diagram & layout engine -- (was: Re: XML to diagram)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:58:43 +0100 (CET)

Luc Pionchon sagde:
> Hi,
>
> dia native format is XML. So you can either use dia format, either use
> your own format and transform it with an XSL transformation sheet. This
> is quite easy to realize.
>
> However dia does not have layout engine. It means you will have to tell
> dia where to put the elements.
>
> Adding a layout engine to dia is certainly a very exciting project, if
> you want to have a go!

I think I should mention at this point that dot, the graph layout program
in the graphviz package, now supports Dia format, see
http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/info/output.html.

-Lars

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