Re: Dia XML format, Graphviz, Instaviz etc.

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:15 +0900, Glen Low wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm the author of the iPhone graph sketching program http:// 
> instaviz.com and sometime contributor to AT&T Graphviz project (CPL- 
> licensed).
>
> I'm currently working on a Visio VDX exporter for Graphviz. I was  
> curious about whether I could generalize it to output DIA as well,  
> since the DIA support in Graphviz is rather old. Do you have any  
> documentation about the Dia XML format, I don't see anything that's  
> easily Googleable?

Given that I never got anything usable out of graphviz' Dia output, I
think that'd be great -- dunno how easily all the bezier splines will
convert, but you may have better ideas than me there.

The dtd for the diagram files can be found in the doc directory of the
distribution.  However, it doesn't say much about the objects in
question, and as far as I remember there is no further description. That
said, it's pretty easy to figure out from a few .dia files.

-Lars