[TriLUG] Looking for Hierarchical Data Documenting Tool

[William Sutton]

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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> Scott Chilcote
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> scottchilcote at att.net
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