Subject: Re: [xsl] Output of a FLowchart from XML From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:49:55 -0500 |
We have created a DTD defining a procedure-like source document (I suppose it's now a new Markup Language?) and stylesheets to output the three kinds of formats listed above (although we're not done with them; still working on item 3). However, our main client (who has been quite happy with our product so far) has asked if we can output Flowcharts corresponding to the software files of item 3.
Initially, I quickly abandoned SVG or Visio XML as it looked like the stylesheets would have to "create the drawings" and line connections along with where they need to appear on the page. This sounds like a lot of code. The other option we've been looking into is flowcharting applications that support some kind of text-to-flowchart capabilities. We think we have a working solution here, but it requires extra steps to get to the final output (graphic files to eventually end up in the Word documents of item 2). The process would be something like a) stylesheets to output text in the flowcharter's "syntax", b) open each file in the flowcharting application, c) do some touch-up work within the app, d) save and export to JPEG or similar format).
It occurred to me that if there exists the right bundle of tools somewhere, perhaps we could use SVG in some way as to bypass a number of manual steps associated with the flowcharting application. Any ideas?
Cheers, Wendell
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