BPMN SVG Decode testing

Table of Contents

Introduction
Solution
- GIT repository
nodemon
- himalaya

Attempt to see if the SVG generated from BPMN can be updated by Inkscape with Title and description whicj will be read later to automatically generate documentation.

Introduction

We are taking BMPN.IO SVG output file and reading it into Inkscape for updating Title and Descriptionh.

Note	It would be preferred if we could do this with `*.BPMN` file. This file is XML formatted and extremely complex.

Table 1. Test Files

File name	Content
spmn-sample.svg	Larger DWIP flow diagram with title, descriptions and color
g5583.svg	Single element on the flow diagram `Status: Subnitted`

Note	g5583.svg. This version of the file was manually cut out of the larger flow diagram.

Solution

Use Node and some NPM modules to perform the HTML to JSON conversion. We are doing this to make the searching of the SVG eaiser and quicker.

GIT repository

Use a local GIT repository and attempt to publish to GitHub account.

Note	In past attempts at this it failed because I added the readme.md on GITHib and was unable to push it back to this local repository.

Initialize this repository with a README This will let you immediately clone the repository to your computer. Skip this step if you’re importing an existing repository.

Cooamnds to push local repository

git remote add origin https://github.com/GeekMustHave/BPMN-SVG-Decode.git
git push -u origin master

nodemon

Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server

initial install of nodemon

npm install nodemon -g

Update the package.json to use `nodemonnpm start

{
  "name": "bmpn-svg-decode",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Test for BPMN SVG decoding ",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "nodemon index.js", (1)
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/geekmusthave/BPMN-SVG-Decode"
  },
  "author": "John Schuster",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "himalaya": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

This new command will allow for npm start to be used to kick off the code.

himalaya

This node module converts HTML into JSON, plain and simple.

GitHub Link

Spec document

Install

npm install himalaya --save