Export from Freemind to yEd - simple XSL

Question

Regarding my feature request for this export I found one step more. It could be easily done with an XSLT which creates a simple CSV which can be imported to yEd via the Excel-Import.

 

This is my XML-code:

Code:

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<map version="0.9.0">
<!-- To view this file, download free mind mapping software FreeMind from http://freemind.sourceforge.net  -->
<node CREATED="1327478699125" ID="ID_1202573115" MODIFIED="1327478699125" TEXT="Start">
<node CREATED="1327478715593" ID="ID_1274856431" MODIFIED="1327478717437" POSITION="right" TEXT="a">
<node CREATED="1327478748546" ID="ID_1587295463" MODIFIED="1327478749515" TEXT="4"/>
</node>
<node CREATED="1327478718296" ID="ID_325575686" MODIFIED="1327478718906" POSITION="right" TEXT="b"/>
<node CREATED="1327478719687" ID="ID_1032928779" MODIFIED="1327478720500" POSITION="right" TEXT="c">
<node CREATED="1327478734953" ID="ID_349051169" MODIFIED="1327478736734" TEXT="1"/>
<node CREATED="1327478737500" ID="ID_1200348443" MODIFIED="1327478739046" TEXT="2"/>
<node CREATED="1327478742234" ID="ID_1104719965" MODIFIED="1327478743765" TEXT="3"/>
</node>
</node>
</map>

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This should be the result - a CSV-table with a Node-Ancestor-data for each node:

Code:

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Node, Ancestor
Start,-
a, Start
b, Start
c, Start
4, a
1, c
2, c
3, c

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Who can help?

Thanks

Peter

Answer 1

Try the following XSLT to convert the freemind format to a TGF (Trivial Graph Format) which can be opened with yEd. Copy this to a file, save it as mm2tgf.xsl and use it in the Freemind export dialog.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="text" encoding="windows-1252"/>


<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="map"/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="map">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node"/>
    <xsl:text>#&#xA;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node" mode="links"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node">
    <xsl:value-of select="@ID"/>
    <xsl:text>&#09;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="@TEXT"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node" mode="links">
    <xsl:variable name="source" select="@ID" />
    <xsl:for-each select="node">
        <xsl:value-of select="$source"/>
        <xsl:text>&#09;</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="@ID"/>
        <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node" mode="links"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Comments

works fine on this side, thanks!

Answer 2

Both of the following converters seem to be promising but additional changes to the resulting file may be required:

• http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export#Microsoft_Excel
• http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Import_and_export#CSV_text

Comments

Thanks for the info, but on base of my zero-level-knowledge I just spent some hours with try&Error&Error and start reading books for Dummies and so to modify this template.

At the moment I don't have a solution.