APM: Site Mapping Graphing Program from November

[Brian Michalk]

I checked this out.  It looks pretty cool.

As I've mentioned in a past presentation, I have a *huge* parse::recdescent
parser definition.  I use it to document the various protocols used at work.
The problem is that it's difficult for non-programmers to read; most notably
the Visual Basic guy.  It would be very, very cool to feed GraphVis my
parser, and have it generate web based clickable documentation.  Is anyone
familiar with anything like this already in development?

I post some of my parser so that you can see what Parse::RecDescent uses:

  header    : head3data
            | head4data

  head3data : 'HEAD3,'<commit>
              dateymd ','  # date
              hdistrict ','# district
              hcounty   ','# county
              highway   ','# highway
              hbrefmark ','# beg. Ref. marker
              hdirection   # lane and roadbed
            | <error?> <reject>

  head4data : 'HEAD4,'<commit>
              comment   ','
              dmi1      ','
              timestamp ','# date
              hdistrict ','# district
              hcounty   ','# county
              highway   ','# highway
              hbrefmark ','# beg. Ref. marker
              hdirection   # lane and roadbed
            | <error?> <reject>

GraphVis wants things like the following:

digraph test123 {

        a -> b -> c;

        a -> {x y};

        b [shape=box];

        c [label="hello\nworld",color=blue,fontsize=24,

             fontname="Palatino-Italic",fontcolor=red,style=filled];

        a -> z [label="hi", weight=100];

        x -> z [label="multi-line\nlabel"];

        edge [style=dashed,color=red];

        b -> x;

        {rank=same; b x}
}


> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-bounces at mail.pm.org [mailto:austin-bounces at mail.pm.org]On
> Behalf Of David Bluestein II
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:21 AM
> To: Austin at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: APM: Site Mapping Graphing Program from November
>
>
> Okay, had searched for the answer for an hour. Emailed list,
> found answer 5 minutes later.
>
> GraphViz
>
> (www.graphviz.org)
>
> :)
>
> David
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:02:42AM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote:
> > Okay, back at the November bring your question meeting, someone
> (actually a
> > couple of people I think) mentioned a graphing program in Perl
> that output
> > images. I remember I looked at it, and it would take a list of
> HTML pages,
> > and what they pointed to, and make an image of the
> relationships. I can't
> > remember the name of the graphing/diagramming program though (not GD, it
> > may have used GD, but it was a wrapper at the very least).
> >
> > I remember I could provide the list of what linked to what and it would
> > draw the diagram, but have lost hte URL.
> >
> > Thanks-
> >
> > David
> >
> > ----------
> > David H. Bluestein II                         President & Lead Developer
> > dbii at interaction.net                         ii, inc.
> >
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> >
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