Dear Abraham, I'm sorry it's taken so long to get back to you. I didn't see any other responses on the list, but I think this is a super idea (although I have yet to look at the code). In particular I like your idea to save to your XML format. Then we could plot to an XML file, and replot (later) with whatever backend we need at the time. It sounds great. We could even zip the file automatically (or just the data parts of the innards) so they'd hopefully be pretty small.
I suspect that if you get the XML backend working and incorporate it, you'll have a lot of users trying it out when they see it in their "save as" format list. Relatedly, is there any way would could add to the SVG backend that would give us essentially this and, simultaneously, a valid SVG file? Is SVG even "officially" extensible in this way? (I don't know much about SVG or XML.) Cheers! Andrew Abraham Schneider wrote: > Hi. A long while ago I had sent out an email asking if anyone was > interested in an XML library for plotting with matplotlib. It seemed > the general consensus was no, though it might be nice as a backend for > saving files. So I developed the XML library for my own purposes, and > have been using it for some time. > > I thought I might as well clean it up, package it, and release it in > the wild. I'm not sure if this would even qualify as an alpha release, > perhaps more of a RFC, but if anyone is interested, and wants to give > some comments, let me know. While it has gotten a good amount of use > (including a soon to be published paper), it has evolved to fit my > needs more than anything else. So in the clean up, I tried to > refractor some saneness into it, and had to fix some things in the > process. I tried to test as much of it as possible, but I'm sure I > forgot some obvious things as well. > > It is trying to serve 3 purposes: > (1) Framework for making publishable figures easy > (2) Provide an easy way to allow pylab figures to be saveable/loadable > and editable by human > (3) Provide a general framework for a higher level plotting library > > I'm hoping to in the near future write the backend to pylab to save in > the XML format. It should (hopefully) be fairly trivial.. > > It can be found (this includes some documentation and examples): > www.cns.nyu.edu/~abes/xmlplot.tar.gz > > Thanks, > > Abe > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
