Open an XML file with data inside, not only elements

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Open an XML file with data inside, not only elements

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to open a xml file with yEd in the aim of visualising data.

It works but the graph consist in visualising XML's elements, not the data contained in.

For exemple:

<c id="de-130" level="item">
<did>
<unittitle label="Intitulé de l'unité documentaire">Eytan, Moshi. <emph render="italic">Convexité dans les ensembles ordonnés</emph>. Rap. /26/août 1969/M. Eytan</unittitle>
<unitdate label="Date de l'unité documentaire" normal="1969">1969</unitdate>
</did>
<controlaccess>
<head>Descripteurs</head>
<genreform label="Typologie documentaire">rapport</genreform>
<subject label="Mot matière libre">ensemble convexe</subject>
<subject label="Mot matière libre">calcul</subject>
<subject label="Mot matière libre" source="liste-discipline">mathématiques</subject>
<persname label="Personne">Eytan, Moshi</persname>
<genreform source="liste-niveau">document</genreform>
</controlaccess>
</c>

Generated nodes are: "Controlaccess", "Genreform", "Subject" .... instead of: "rapport", "calcul" or "Eytan, Moshi", which are data I want to see.

However, the entire structure is perfect: all the edges are correct.

Can anyone help me?

Best regards,

Julien, French archivist

asked Nov 4, 2014 in Help by anonymous

1 Answer

thomas.behr · Answer 1 · 2014-11-05T18:28:43+0000

You need to write an XSLT stylesheet that transforms your XML into GraphML according to your requirements. You can use this stylesheet as a starting point:

<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:y="http://www.yworks.com/xml/graphml"
xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <graphml
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://www.yworks.com/xml/schema/graphml/1.1/ygraphml.xsd">
      <key id="d0" for="node" yfiles.type="nodegraphics"/>
      <key id="d1" for="edge" yfiles.type="edgegraphics"/>
      <graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="//*" mode="create-nodes"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="/*//*" mode="create-edges"/>
      </graph>
    </graphml>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//*" mode="create-nodes">
    <xsl:element name="node">
      <xsl:attribute name="id">
        <xsl:value-of select="generate-id()"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <data key="d0">
        <y:ShapeNode>
          <y:Fill color="#CCCCCC"/>
          <y:NodeLabel><html><div
            style="font-size:120%;color:blue;">
            <xsl:value-of
                select="name()"/>
            </div>
            <xsl:for-each select="@*">
              <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
              ="
              <xsl:value-of select="."/>
              "<br>
            </xsl:for-each>
          </y:NodeLabel>
        </y:ShapeNode>
      </data>
    </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//*" mode="create-edges">
    <xsl:element name="edge">
      <xsl:attribute name="id">
        <xsl:value-of select="generate-id()"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="source">
        <xsl:value-of select="generate-id(parent::node())"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="target">
        <xsl:value-of select="generate-id()"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

After importing your data, run "Tools" -> "Fit Node to Label" and "Layout" -> "Tree" -> "Directed".

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