[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: xml keywords

[Scott, W Alan]

I wrote up a feature request.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17936

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Cory
> Quammen
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 8:42 AM
> To: Felipe Bordeu <felipebordeu at gmail.com>
> Cc: paraview <paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] xml keywords
> 
> Felipe,
> 
> Unfortunately, there is no one place that documents all the XML elements
> and attributes. There is some documentation on property attributes in [1],
> but I'm not sure this is an exhaustive list. Your user is doing one of the most
> effective things already, looking for desired functionality in an existing
> source/filter and looking at how it is done in the .xml files.
> 
> Digging deeper, one can view the code in the methods ReadXMLAttributes in
> the various vtkSM*Proxy classes in ParaView, e.g.,
> vtkSMProxy::ReadXMLAttributes [2]., to understand which attributes are
> available in different proxies.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Cory
> 
> [1] https://www.paraview.org/ParaView/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-
> doc/classvtkSMProperty.html#details
> 
> [2]
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/ParaViewCore/
> ServerManager/Core/vtkSMProxy.cxx#L1439
> 
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Felipe Bordeu <felipebordeu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I have a user that use intensively xml files to deploy and customise
> > his python programmable filters.
> > He would like to know if there is a list with all the xml keyword
> > available (for filters, readers,writers).
> > He uses the files in
> > "./ParaViewCore/ServerManager/SMApplication/Resources/*.xml"  for
> > inspiration but not actually sure about the potential and limits of
> > the xml customization.
> >
> > for info: We use also the wiki
> >
> (https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_Categori
> es
> > _to_the_Filters_Menu)
> > for inspiration
> >
> > Felipe
> >
> >
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