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

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 17:33 +0200, Luc Pionchon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 17:58 +0100, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm...
> on the documentation page [1], there is also a document called "Using
> Graphviz as a library" [2] which may be very interesting to investigate.
> 
> [1] http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php
> [2] http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/libguide/libguide.pdf

Very interesting indeed.  Could take way too much of my time, if I let
it:)  Thanks for the pointers!

-Lars