Re: dia2shape

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, James K. Lowden wrote:

> All,
>
> The whole shape proposal discussion led me to another notion I don't
> recall having seen discussed.
>
> It seems to me it should be possible to use Dia to create Dia shapes.
>
> What needed is enough information in a Dia diagram to create a .shape
> file, and an XSLT file that describes the transformations.  Probably we
> need a "shape sheet" with things like connection points and text boxes.
> The conversion could be effected with a script that would generate the
> .shape and update its .sheet, using a standard XSLT processor.

Making the .shape and icon is already there.  I'm looking at automatically
adding to the .sheet file based on directory names.

-Lars

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