Re: Meaning of XML attributes for Dia UML objects

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 21.10.2011 02:51, Wangyuan Zhang wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am trying to understand the dia output XML file. What are the meanings of
> attributes for Dia UML objects. Someone asked this question before, but
> there was no answer.
The answer is in the code. Actually there is a pretty direct mapping 
between standard properties and XML code.

[...]\dia>grep -A 1 obj_bb */*.h
lib/object.h:  { "obj_bb", PROP_TYPE_RECT, PROP_FLAG_OPTIONAL, \
lib/object.h-    "Object bounding box", "The bounding box of the object"},

> For example, the following shows some tags for a simple Class object. I'd
> like to know what obj_pos, obj_bb, etc means. Is there any documentation for
> them ?
>
>      <dia:object type="UML - Class" version="0" id="O0">
>        <dia:attribute name="obj_pos">
>          <dia:point val="14.5,7"/>
>        </dia:attribute>
>        <dia:attribute name="obj_bb">
>          <dia:rectangle val="14.45,6.95;17.4025,9.25"/>
>        </dia:attribute>
>        <dia:attribute name="elem_corner">
>          <dia:point val="14.5,7"/>
>        </dia:attribute>
>        <dia:attribute name="elem_width">
>          <dia:real val="2.8525"/>
>        </dia:attribute>
>        <dia:attribute name="elem_height">
>          <dia:real val="2.1999999999999997"/>
>        </dia:attribute>
>        <dia:attribute name="name">
>          <dia:string>#Class#</dia:string>
>        </dia:attribute>
>
> Thanks
> --Wangyuan
>
>
>
>
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