Re: a standard for diagram document format

["Diego Jacobi" <jacobidiego gmail com>]

I am not sure if an standard of it could be made in the strict sense of the word.

Diagrams are used for too many kind of representations in many different ways. And example could be an electronic circuit analysis in blocks vs a genealogical tree. (The last having a std. format)

Both are too much different so it will depend on the application.
Just using a zipped XML with a png screnshoot like in ODF will be good enough (i don't know how is the actual format). And of course, the format should be on top of SVG, then any exporting or printing functionality would be done by a common library for svg.

But what dia really needs is to leave the old multiwindows (gimp like) interface which makes it really ugly and nonstandard and make the main widget embeddable for other tools like Abiword, OOo, IDEs, Visual programming languages, electronic circuits, etc.

When most programs adopts dia as the main widget for diagrams then its native format will be the standard.

Cheers

2008/6/11 Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>:

On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote:

Dnia 2008-06-11 18:13 osoba przedstawiająca się jako José María Martínez napisała:

I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for diagrams?

I believe that if you would try to define a standard for diagrams that wouldn't be too complex and would have enough functionality to build any diagram you would eventually end up with SVG ;-).

SVG is a vector illustration format, not a structured diagram format. You might end up with something that uses SVG for the drawing bits, but then has a layer on top that defines connection points, logical behaviour etc.

-Lars

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