docbook-apps

hi,
I wonder if there is already a tool out there to visualize a DocBook
document as a treemap.

I came across some interesting research on how one can visualize
changes between two treemaps that would be useful to monitor changes
in a DocBook document: create the treemap today, create a new one
tomorrow, compare the two with a layout distance function which
creates a new treemap that shows changes by differences in contrast.
And there you have it, a simple graphic to give a high-level view of
the differences between documents or versions of a document.

So, before I go inventing this wheel, I wondered if someone already
has such a project. If not, does anyone see the benefit or perhaps
another way to get the same basic result?

thanks,
--Tim Arnold

Hi Tim.

You might take a look at diffxml. http://diffxml.sourceforge.net/ I think it looks promising. But I am not sure if there is some kind of html visualizer available.

cheers,
/frank


9 feb 2012 kl. 16.22 skrev Tim Arnold:

> hi,
> I wonder if there is already a tool out there to visualize a DocBook
> document as a treemap.
>
> I came across some interesting research on how one can visualize
> changes between two treemaps that would be useful to monitor changes
> in a DocBook document: create the treemap today, create a new one
> tomorrow, compare the two with a layout distance function which
> creates a new treemap that shows changes by differences in contrast.
> And there you have it, a simple graphic to give a high-level view of
> the differences between documents or versions of a document.
>
> So, before I go inventing this wheel, I wondered if someone already
> has such a project. If not, does anyone see the benefit or perhaps
> another way to get the same basic result?
>
> thanks,
> --Tim Arnold
>
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