On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> first of all: "hello dia-list" :)
>
> I am new to this list and Dia (it seems very powerful so far). My current
> project is to make a diagram consisting of a simple network (boxes with
> links between them, to keep it simple).
>
> I will need to parse the output in some way (coordinates of boxes, what
> boxes are linked), and thought i could read it from the saved fileformat.
> Now, I'm using 0.41 (rpm packaged), and the NEWS file states (0.30):
> * The fileformat changed from my own binary format to an easily readable
> XML format.
> ..but it doesn't look very readable to me (binary rather). Maybe it's just
> because I don't know XML very well (I thought it would be like html, just
> a bit more tags :)
It is normaly gzip'ed xml. You can disable the comression in the
preferences, or use zcat to view the files.
> Parsing the .eps output isn't really something I want to do either..
No. That doesn't sound like fun.
> I wonder if you have any solutions to this (I realise that this is
> probably not what the program was designed for); if you have suggestions
> to other programs (X11 preferably) that do what i want, it would be
> equally helpful.
What do you want to do with the output? libxml is great for parsing the
xml.
/ Alex
