Re: Dia involvement in ODF?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:09 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> I go to openoffice.org and read the news there from time to time and I
> keep seeing ODF pop up. I am curious if the dia developers are
> participating in talks with the ODF format?
> Reason I ask is as follows. Dia's format is almost perfectly
> understandable as is. I can go in and read the XML (after gunziping it
> of course) and understand the position size and other attributes with
> little to no understanding of dia. Also I love the indentions in the
> format it makes it easy following objects. I would love for the ODF to
> contain some of these wonderful features employed in the dia program.
> Also I would like full compatibility with dia diagrams between apps
> such as dia and openoffice and the like :-)

I took a look at ODF a while back, and decided I didn't want to try to
import/export it at that point.  I'm glad you like the Dia format, but
it ought the be just a question of the right XSLT to translate between
them.  The indentation is just from libxml2's prettyprint function.

-Lars