There is a dtd in the diagram.dtd file in the dia CVS module (which I just
noticed is not included in the tarballs).
It would probably be possible to extract the required info from the XML
files, but I think that a scripting interface to dia (maybe using CORBA)
would be more useful, as it allows dia to parse the file, and following
connections between objects would be easier.
James.
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Doug Kelly wrote:
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>
> Hi
> I finally picked up dia .81 yesterday, and am suitibly impressed. You guys
> should have better PR - I thought it was basically a sketch program. How wrong
> I was.
> I checked the archives, and it looks like the bulk of the discussion is
> drawing/graphically oriented. My interest is more in Object Modelling, and
> there doesn't seem to be much discussion on that, so I thought I'd try to bring
> myself up to speed.
> Obviously, at some stage the ability to generate code/SQL etc out of the
> models is desired. Is the basic philosophy that this will be done as a part of
> the core program, or is the idea that this will be done by utilities that parse
> the XML output of the main engine? My guess is that you could get more mileage
> out of the latter, as it is much more flexible.
> Given that, there are a couple quesitons:
> -is there a DTD available or in progress?
> -is the XML handling sufficiently modular that the program itself can serve as
> the basis of an XML handling lib (I'll investigate this, but bootstrapping help
> is welcome)
> - if not, is there an XML parser that people are using? This looks like a
> great opportunity to finally get to know the IBM XML/Java stuff.
>
>
> thanks for a great program
>
> Doug Kelly
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