Re: [xml-dev] Adding metadata to a flat structure to create a hierarchy

Have you considered DOT 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language))? There 
are a number of visualization tools for it.

-Mike

On 3/11/2014 5:31 AM, Andrew Welch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Given a flat key/value pair structure like this:
>
> <key name="key1> val 1 </key>
> <key name="key2> val 2 </key>
> <key name="key3> val 3 </key>
>
> I would like to add some metadata to describe the relationship between
> the keys - for example key2 and key3 are both children of key1 - and
> then (hopefully) run some tool over this markup to create a
> visualisation of the hierarchy which allows the users to select the
> keys they are interested in.
>
> I'd ideally like to express parent/child relationships, and/or group
> the keys into categories.  The user will drill down through hierarchy,
> or browse the categories, to discover the key names (of which there
> are 1000+)
>
> The markup structure is fixed as a flat structure, it can't be
> converted to a hierarchical structure (I've simplified the example
> here)
>
> RDFa seems like a reasonable approach, maybe FOAF?  Does the list
> agree, or have an alternative approach?
>
> Does anyone know of any tools to turn the metadata into the
> visualisation, or get me some of the way?
>
> thanks
>
>