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Re: Ancestry Graph: msg#00196

Subject: Re: Ancestry Graph
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:16:43 -0400, Brian Campbell <ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My personal preference for random file formats is s-expressions, but I can be talked out of that. I'm thinking something like:

(ancestry
  (revision 914188563620ffddd36f0aa36c34610d02aee24b
   (author "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   (changelog "Foo" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   (branch "edu.dartmouth.foobar" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   ...)
  (revision c5e1a26d36fb6fe10b36249f17f2fbc42b504dbf
   (author "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   (changelog "Bar" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   (branch "edu.dartmouth.foobar" "ubergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" ok)
   ...)
  (ancestor c5e1a26d36fb6fe10b36249f17f2fbc42b504dbf
            914188563620ffddd36f0aa36c34610d02aee24b))

Or something like that. It wouldn't be too hard to write a little utility to convert that to VCG or DOT or whatever, while selecting the appropriate information to display. Would anyone object to doing it that way?

What about storing xml then xslt can be used to transform the format?

--
Phil de Joux


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