Re: Dia DTD's location? (And some related ramblings.)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Hi Andrey,
> Am 15.02.2016 um 08:13 schrieb Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>:
>
> Greetings, All!
>
> I've been toying around with XML parsing, and I've used Dia shape as a guinea
> pig. This gave me some ideas, but first, a question:
> Where's the Dia DTD's are located nowadays?
https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/doc/shape.dtd

> http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns seems to be down, and has been down
> for quite a while.
Yes.

> Now, to the shapes themselves.
> I think, people subscribed to the list had seen this (well, similar) one
>
> <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
>    xmlns:dia="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
>    xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
>  <name>Custom - Styles mix</name>
>  <svg svg:width="300px" svg:height="300px" svg:viewBox="0 0 3 3">
>    <circle
>      dia:style="stroke: foreground;"
>      svg:style="fill: yellow; fill-opacity: 255; stroke-width: 0.1; stroke-dasharray: 1 0.75; 
> stroke-dashoffset: .5;"
>      cx="1.5" cy="1.5" r="0.5"/>
>  </svg>
> </shape>
>
> This was posted as a proposed concept to the request about separating
> decoration colors from diagram object properties.
Apparently I missed that discussion or can’t remember it…

> Now, how about this one?
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE shape PUBLIC "-//Dia//DTD Dia shape 1.0//EN" "http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";>
> <shape
>    xmlns:dia="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
>    xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
>
>  <name>Custom - Styles mix</name>
>
>  <?dia python.script();?>
>
>  <svg svg:width="300px" svg:height="300px" svg:viewBox="0 0 3 3">
>    <circle
>      dia:style="stroke: foreground;"
>      svg:style="fill: yellow; fill-opacity: 255; stroke-width: 0.1; stroke-dasharray: 1 0.75; 
> stroke-dashoffset: .5;"
>      cx="1.5" cy="1.5" r="0.5"/>
>  </svg>
>
> </shape>
>
> Advantages are quite many.
> 1. Upfront valid XML.
> 2. Clear separation of object design from object attributes.
> 3. Embedded scripting! Seriously. XML lets you embed parsing instructions!
Sorry, I don’t understand any of your proposed advantages.

Greetings,
        Hans