Re: a standard for diagram document format

[Alex Mandel <tech_dev wildintellect com>]

I don't know where the documentation is, but simply in tinkering with 
dia files you'll see that it is indeed a compressed xml file.
In the save dialog if you uncheck the compress option you'll get an html 
file out of it.

Alex

Diego Jacobi wrote:
> Where is the info describing the dia format?
>
> It is the same as a shape?
>
> It would be nice, the shape being the same thing as a diagram.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> 2008/6/11 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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