Subject: [xsl] XSL-T to map a D(A)G From: Mark Nahabedian <naha@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:31:42 -0400 |
Goetz Bock writes: [...] > I know that such a mapping is not easy and due to the scructur of the > XML it is possible to created the strangest graphs :-( > But I'd be happy just do map a DAG, ignorring all the backward > references. > > I don't need this immediatly, because this functionality will only be > the suggar for my current project. > Anyway, has anyone ever written a D(A)G mapper in XSL-T? > Or should I just forget XSL-T for this and use a "real" programming > language. The hardest part of your problem is an algorithmic one, not a programming one. How does one decide where to place the nodes of the graph. If your graph is directed and acyclic, you can put the root node in the top row and sucessive generations of descendcents in suceeding rows: nodes that have in-links directly from the root would be in the second row, nodes with in links from those nodes in the third row, etc. A node might have in-links from several different "genereations" of nodes. Its row should be determined based on (one more than) the lowest row of any of the nodes which have links directed to it. The previous paragraph descives a way to place the nodes along one axis. To determine their locations on the other axis, you would ideally want to minimize the lengths of the arrows which represent the links. You might decide that this is too much work for the first attempt and just place the nodes of a given row in the order they appear in the input. This will get out a graph but it may not be pretty. It might look cluttered. Some rows might appear too wide for convenient display. Anything better is probably much hardser though. I think that in XSLT I'd approach this with a two pass solution. The first pass would read the graph description input XML file and output the same XML tree but with additional attributes that assign locations to the nodes. The second pass would just generate SVG from that modified tree. I've not tried this but I have worked oin a similar problem: drawing a picture of a knot given an XML description. I did this using two transformations. The first transformation extracts a specified know from a "knot library file" (in XML) and outputs the description of that knot along with additional elements and attributes which serve as placeholders in which the user is to edit the placement information (locations where the crossings of cords should be placed). The second transformation generates SVG from the output of the first, after th3e used has filled in the placement information. I hope these suggestions are helpful. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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