SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Adventures in XML in VISIO
RE: SIGIA-L: Adventures in XML in VISIO
From: Bernardo Carvalho (Bernardo_at_corp.globo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 16:53:28 EST
Yes, but I am thinking the other way around. I don't want Visio to read some
raw data and parse a diagram - I want my diagram to become raw data and be
read by someone else's tool to help he perform his job.
Information Architecture is at the very beginning of a huge process, and we
deliver specs and diagrams to a wide audience of professionals that have
lots of work to do from then on. We expect our deliverables to be readable
and understandable by interface designers, copywriters, html coders,
programmers, system architects and so on. What if, along our human-readable
(sometimes poorly readable) deliverables we could deliver machine-readable
Information Architecture? What if their *tools* could read this
machine-readable code to carry on our work to other spheres of the
production process?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ziya Oz [mailto:ZiyaOz_at_earthlink.net]
Sent: sexta-feira, 1 de marco de 2002 17:18
To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
Subject: Re: SIGIA-L: Adventures in XML in VISIO
So while a basic boxes-with-connecting-lines type diagrams may indeed be
possible, more complicated diagrams may not be so 'transportable' *among*
diagram renderers. Shading, shapes, magnetism of connectors, spacing between
units, transparency, labeling, text wrapping, paging, line thickness,
layering and a whole lot of other attributes are handled differently in each
diagramming app. Given a common OPML file that goes beyond the utter basics,
each tool would do different things or simply barf at the definitions.
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