Re: Testing of current CVS version, problems in svg in sketch and eps font problem, proposal for an RDF config file

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

> > > > On this note, I would like to also add in besides the URL, 
> > > > a list of RDF like properties. These would be definable using a
> RDF
> > > > schema and then converted into DIA properties. I think that
> either
> > > > XMLLIB could be used to parse the XML and then the properties
> could
> > > be
> > > > created on the fly as needed. Otherwise I can start looking for
> a
> > > GPLed
> > > > RDF lib that we can put on top of the libxml doms if there is
> none.
>
> From the looks of it, I doubt libxml can parse RDF.  Too much special
> syntax. 

The raptor is a RDF parser that can use libxml and expat and supports
python/perl/ruby interfaces... it looks really good.

> > > -Lars is drowning in TLAs.
> > Sorry I have be reading up on all this stuff: here is a set of
> links
>
> I'll have to look some more into this.  
>
> Notice that since RDF has no layout to it, we can't make Dia read it
> without adding some kind of auto-layout.

Yes that is kind of what I want to do with the introspector,
have a bunch of XML feeds of software meta data into a repository with
graph-layout and DIA backends..

Anyway that is way in the future... I want to help get DIA stable and
usable, it is taking a long time for me to familiarize myself with all
these parts. First i want to look at medoosa, they seemed to use
graphvis as a layout. That will be the first step to move that over to
VCG and plug it into dia....

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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