How can I import mindmaps into Compendium?
tagsDiscussion on importing MindManager maps into CompendiumtagsIf we want to have a discussion about this, I can start. 1) First, one needs to determine how you want to map the mindmanager entities to Compendium nodes and links. 2) What features do you want to extract (symbols, text blocks, free floating text, relationships – arrows, etc.)? 3) Mindmanager has a macro language that can be used to traverse the tree and extract the nodes and features. There are a few add-ons already written for Mindmanager that might do this or could be adapted to extract information to XML. Mindmanager symbols can be placed on Nodes to help identify the meaning and use of nodes. 4) The XSLT to transform the extracted info into a form that Compendium will eat should not be too bad since MindManager is generally hierarchical except for relationship(arrows). If Praj has some specifications about how how the Mindmanager features are used in the maps to be translated, that would be a good place to start. a)
