NAME¶
gxl2gv,gv2gxl - GXL-GV converters
SYNOPSIS¶
gxl2gv [
-gd? ] [
-ooutfile ] [
files ]
gv2gxl [
-gd? ] [
-ooutfile ] [
files ]
DESCRIPTION¶
gxl2gv converts between graphs represented in GXL and in the GV language.
Unless a conversion type is specified using a flag,
gxl2gv will deduce
the type of conversion from the suffix of the input file, a ".gv"
(or a ".dot") suffix causing a conversion from GV to GXL, and a
".gxl" suffix causing a conversion from GXL to GV. If no suffix is
available, e.g. when the input is from a pipe, and no flags are used then
gxl2gv assumes the type of the input file from its executable name so
that
gxl2gv converts from GXL to GV, and
gv2gxl converts from GV
to GXL.
GXL supports a much richer graph model than GV.
gxl2gv will attempt to
map GXL constructs into the analogous GV construct when this is possible. If
not, the GXL information is stored as an attribute. The intention is that
applying
gxl2gv|gv2gxl is semantically equivalent to the identity
operator.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are supported:
- -g
- The command name and input file extensions are ignored, the
input is taken as a GV file and a GXL file is generated.
- -d
- The command name and input file extensions are ignored, the
input is taken as a GXL file and a GV file is generated.
- -?
- Prints usage information and exits.
- -o outfile
- If specified, the output will be written into the file
outfile. Otherwise, output is written to standard out.
OPERANDS¶
The following operand is supported:
- files
- Names of files containing 1 or more graphs in GXL or GV. If
no files operand is specified, the standard input will be
used.
RETURN CODES¶
Both
gxl2gv and
gv2gxl return
0 if there were no problems
during conversion; and non-zero if any error occurred.
BUGS¶
gxl2gv will only convert in one direction even if given multiple files
with varying suffixes.
The conversion can only handle one graph per GXL file.
There are some GXL constructs which
gxl2gv cannot handle.
AUTHORS¶
Krishnam Pericherla <kp@research.att.com>
Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>
SEE ALSO¶
dot(1), libgraph(3), libagraph(3),
neato(1),
twopi(1)