We ask a lot of questions in here, but don't see a lot of the solutions... so here's one.

[notfred]

What I've been working on:

I've been writing software that turns xml files like this one, conforming to this schema, and turns them into pretty graphs like this.

Ok, so it's not done yet, but it's making good progress. Once the PNG output is finished, I'll also be doing SVG output from the same program.

I think it's kinda cool.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: notfred
What I've been working on:

I've been writing software that turns xml files like this one, conforming to this schema, and turns them into pretty graphs like this.

Ok, so it's not done yet, but it's making good progress. Once the PNG output is finished, I'll also be doing SVG output from the same program.

I think it's kinda cool.

It would be cool if it would allow backwards-programming, IE, allowing the the user to adjust point positions on the graph, and then have it translate back to XML. Are the graphs outputted in image form only? If so then I guess this wouldn't be possible.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Originally posted by: notfred
What I've been working on:

I've been writing software that turns xml files like this one, conforming to this schema, and turns them into pretty graphs like this.

Ok, so it's not done yet, but it's making good progress. Once the PNG output is finished, I'll also be doing SVG output from the same program.

I think it's kinda cool.

It would be cool if it would allow backwards-programming, IE, allowing the the user to adjust point positions on the graph, and then have it translate back to XML. Are the graphs outputted in image form only? If so then I guess this wouldn't be possible.

It wouldn't be useful for the kind of thing I'm doing with it. We have scientists collecting large volumes of data, which needs to be availible as graphs in printed and online report documents. Right now, these people are generally using Excel or similar software to create a graph, and passing it off to an illustrator who has to spend a lot of time making it look how our standards say our graphs should look.

This will allow the scientists to enter their data, send the XML file to the illustrator, and the illustrator creates a standard graph in seconds instead of minutes or hours.