[TriLUG] Looking for Hierarchical Data Documenting Tool

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi William,

The functionality in "tree" is pretty basic.  In fact, I wrote something
similar in perl  over a decade ago
(http://trilug.org/~chilcote/Perl/html-tree.html
<http://trilug.org/%7Echilcote/Perl/html-tree.html>).  It generates HTML
but is very limited otherwise.  What I'm aiming for now is a more
polished and navigable interface that is easier to extend.

A hacked Doxygen/Graphviz doc builder is the best example I've found so
far (example
<http://www-scf.usc.edu/%7Epeterchd/doxygen/example/main_8c.html>).  But
it would require a lot of finagling to get a
non-source-code-documentation-ish result.  The Venn diagram doesn't
quite reach.

It's been some years since I looked at tools of this nature, so I'm
mainly wondering whether something that would do a better job has shown up.

Thanks much!

   Scott


On 09/18/2013 10:18 AM, William Sutton wrote:
> I dunno about HTML tools, but you could probably run `tree` and
> HTML-ize the output.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>
>> Hello TriLUGers,
>>
>> I'm working on a project where we need to analyze a bunch of binary data
>> files that are organized hierarchically in nested directories.  I'd like
>> to find a utility app that will, with a minimum of additional work,
>> generate a navigable, visual "map" of these files in HTML format.
>>
>> I have tools that can parse metadata from these files, but nothing that
>> displays their organizational structure at this point.
>>
>> The program that comes closest to doing this that I know of is Doxygen.
>> The graphs that it creates using Graphviz and dot would be particularly
>> useful.  I could use Doxygen for this purpose, but there is no source
>> code to document.  I would have to generate hundreds of stub files
>> containing pseudo-source code documentation in order to make it work.
>>
>> Another option would be to write scripts to do this from scratch, but
>> I'm wondering if someone knows a quicker way to get there.
>>
>> I've read that DocBook is a good general purpose stuff documenter, but
>> after examining it for twenty minutes earlier today I had a very vague
>> idea of what it does.  I did not see a way to use it to build hierarchy
>> graphs either...  But could easily have missed it in my brief search.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas!
>>
>>   Scott C.
>>
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