Re: File Formats (was SVG)

[John Palmieri <johnp martianrock com>]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 14:20, John Palmieri wrote:
> > > Dia was using XML well before it became a key technology, and SVG was used
> > > significantly.
> > >
> > > Seperating presentation and information as Dia does now is a real plus -
> > > have a look at the adbomnination that is argouml's xml file format and you
> > > will see why you don't use something like SVG to represent UML and other
> > > diagrams.
> > >
> > > I thought it would be relatively easy to convert to/from Dia and Argouml,
> > > given they both use XML to represent UML Class diagrams - its the same
> > > information, the structures can't be that different, right? wrong!
> >
> > "converting from one XML to another XML must be easy"
> > is only slighly less ludicrous than saying
> > "converting from one ASCII based file format to another"
> > especially if you have ever looked at any of the XML produced by MSWord or
> > Visio.
> libxstl is realy great at doing this.  XSTL is specificly made for
> converting XML to XML and along with formatting objects can be used to
> do things like XML to PDF or any number of formats.  Quite a good tool
> and standard.
Oops that is XSLT not XSTL.  Too much C++ today.


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