mekk.xmind 0.4.0 released

[Marcin Kasperski]

mekk.xmind 0.4.0 has just been released

What it is?
===========

mekk.xmind is a pure-Python handler for XMind mind-map files.
It can be used to:

- generate XMind mind-maps from scratch (for example to visualize
  some data as a mind-map),
- modify existing .xmind files,
- parse existing .xmind files and analyze their content.

Mind-map creation example::

    from mekk.xmind import XMindDocument
    
    OUTPUT = "test.xmind"
    
    xmind = XMindDocument.create(u"First sheet title", u"Root subject")
    first_sheet = xmind.get_first_sheet()
    root_topic = first_sheet.get_root_topic()
    
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"First item")
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Second item")
    t = root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Third item")
    t.add_subtopic(u"Second level - 1")
    t.add_subtopic(u"Second level - 2")
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Detached topic", detached = True)
    t.add_subtopic(u"Another detached", detached = True)
    t.add_marker("flag-red")
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Link example").set_link("http://mekk.waw.pl")
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Attachment example").set_attachment(
        file("map_creator.py").read(), ".txt")
    root_topic.add_subtopic(u"With note").set_note(
        u"""This is just some dummy note.""")
    
    xmind.save(OUTPUT)
    
Mind-map parsing::

    from mekk.xmind import XMindDocument
    
    xmind = XMindDocument.open("test.xmind")
    
    sheet = xmind.get_first_sheet()
    print "Sheet title: ", sheet.get_title()
    
    root = sheet.get_root_topic()
    print "Root title: ", root.get_title()
    print "Root note: ", root.get_note()
    
    for topic in root.get_subtopics():
        print "* ", topic.get_title()
        print "   label: ", topic.get_label()
        print "   link: ", topic.get_link()
        print "   markers: ", list(topic.get_markers())
        # topic.get_subtopics() etc
    

What has changed?
=================

All docstrings were translated to English, plenty of undocumented
methods got their documentation.

A bug which caused failures while opening some XMind 3.1.1 - saved files
has been fixed.

Resources
=========

:Source repository and issue tracker: http://bitbucket.org/Mekk/mekk.xmind/
:Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mekk.xmind/0.4.0

:XMind home: http://xmind.net


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| http://mekk.waw.pl |    the courage to put our faith in people as
|                    |  opposed to a process. (Booch,Martin,Newkirk)