Re: a standard for diagram document format

["Maciej Jaros" <egil wp pl>]

On 2008-06-11 at 21:40 Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote:
>
> > On 2008-06-11 18:13 José María Martínez wrote:
> > > 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.

I think you can do all that with SVG (though it probably wouldn't look 
very nice and would probably have to extend SVG a bit as Inkscape does). 
But what I really wanted to say is what Diego Jacobi said - I believe 
there are simply to many possible kinds of diagrams to have a usable 
standard. By standard I mean something that is fairly constant which 
again I believe isn't possible for diagrams. But maybe all new things 
are done by people that didn't know they were impossible when they did 
it ;). So I'm keeping my fingers crossed - maybe Dia's XML could become 
close to a standard some day.

Regards,
Nux

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