Generating a graphical representation of the XML tree

[fm86]

Hi everybody!

Hope I am in the right forum...
I have my nice XML file and I'd like to generate, in order to give an immediate idea of the parent-child relations, a visual representation of it in a graph-like fashion: with nodes represented by circles and connected by lines and maybe even navigable, so that if I pass on a certain element the related node in the representation will be highlighted (or the other way round).

Is there any software that automatically does that? I found software that generate a folder-like view of it but it's not exactly what I need.

Thanks for your attention!

[httpwebwitch]

I did, once upon a time, see a Flash SWF that did this. But it wasn't circles and lines, it was like a tree with branches and twigs.

[fm86]

Hi and thanks for the reply!

So, do you think I should better ask in an actionscript forum?

[httpwebwitch]

yeah, you might find the kind of solution you're looking for in Flash.

worst case is you'll have to build one yourself. that won't be a trivial job.

[fm86]

Hi again!

It's hard to believe that none ever did a similar application, but my searches didn't return anything useful. [So should I repost in the Flash forum or will you move/prune this thread there?]

[fm86]

after a long quest, I found an amazing library which works with JSON: [thejit.org...]