Re: Import of data

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 15:28 +0200, Jostein Martinsen wrote:
> Hi
> I would like to be able to import the structure of a database into Dia.
> My first tought was to run 'describe' for the tables I have in my database, and then parse
> the output into Dia:s (XML?) format. But since maybe the fileformat might change, this
> isn't so good, right?
>
> Has anyone done or wanted something like this before?
>
> The main problem is that we have a couple of databases (in MySQL) that we want to have
> nice ER-, or UML-diagrams over. And it's very time-consuming to make them by hand...

Take a look at the Links page on the Dia homepage
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/, there's a number of tools that
generate Dia diagrams from all manner of things.  Particularly
interesting is probably SchemeMania http://www.schemamania.org/, which
while it's not itself ready to use, has a bunch more links and ideas for
similar projects.

-Lars