Re: Scripting a drawing

[Alfred Heller <ajh cvt dk>]

Dear Lars


I would like to read an argumentation tree from an XML file. Hence the
individual arguments are rapped in tags e.g. <claim>The world is round.
<argumentation>The diameter arround the whole world is differing 0.0001%
only.</argumentation></claim> The XML file has a lot of such frases.

Now I would like a tool to read the XML file and transform it in e.g. an
UML diagram where "claim" would be the class name and the
"argumentation" would be a data which evt. can be redriven by a method
with name "GetArguments" that is inserted additionally to the data that
comes from the XML file.

Is this prossible with any Script-Diagramming combination from the Open
Source community?

Thanks for replay

Fred


On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:40, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2002, Alfred Heller wrote:
> > Dear DIA users
> >
> > I would like to use scripting language to draw eg. a UML-diagram in one
> > or another way. DIA seems not to support such actions. VISIO does
> > support such scripts. Is there any open source tool that enables me to
> > write a script and then produce a drawing similar to e.g. DIA?
>
> No scripting language as such (except the Python plugin, which is in an
> indeterminable state until somebody looks at it).  On the other hand,
> AutoDia will make diagrams out of source code.  Could you explain in more
> detail how you would use such a script?
>
> -Lars
>
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