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>There is Milslav Nic's Graphotron at the www.xvon.org/ site.
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>It is amazingly terse: unlike the pic-in-xml graph languages
>it is a specialist transformatin tool. It lets you have your instance
>data in vanilla XML (i.e. not specified in terms of nodes
>or arcs); you specify a transformation using XPaths into
>arcs and nodes.
Thanks Rick, yep, this definitely falls into the category of 'neato'.
As it happens, I'm approaching a similar sort of problem from a slightly
different viewpoint - source data in whatever (I'm looking at vanilla XML &
RDF) transformation data in RDF, output in whatever (notably SVG).
Essentially this won't be unlike the Graphotron, but the transformation will
be based on underlying semantics rather than XML structure. I intend to add
editability as well, which demands some kind of state representation, so
I've got an in-memory graph model, and for the sakes of both simplicity and
generality the model I'm using is a generalised graph (rather than e.g.
using the RDF model). I was looking at using a graph language for
serialisation of the 'base' graph model. At present I've got a RGML
serialization, but this format is a little too restrictive in itself - using
other namespaces will obviously blow things wide open, but I was hoping to
find something where what I needed could be expressed in a single namespace,
one which didn't include too much guff. As I'm going to have to work out a
schema for specifying the transformations/mappings anyway, at present it
looks like it'll be easiest to include the graph representation stuff
there - mostly subclassed from RGML.
Cheers,
Danny.
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