GEXF

Question on the last page of the primer : Parser optimization

Asked by Daniel Ristic on 2010-08-11

Hello,

I am currently writing a graph converter that outputs a gexf file (which is a very neat graph format comparing to others like GraphML or TLP) so I read the Primer and managed to do a pretty decent converter but I didn't get one of the bullets on the last page. So here is my question :

You talk about a count attribute that I used on <nodes> and <edges> to specify the number of edges and nodes of my graph, but then I read the phrase "Note that count only refers to direct children, not the whole sub-graph!". I don't understand what you mean by that (and none of the example files uses that attribute), can you explain it or show an example ?

Regards.

Daniel

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Best Sébastien Heymann (sebastien.heymann) said : #1

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for the compliment. This is an example:

In a given hierarchical network, imagine you have 3 levels of hierarchy: level A includes level B includes level C.
One node in level A contains 3 nodes at level B. Each one of them contains 2 nodes at level C.

So you only count the nodes existing at the direct sub-level:

<nodes count="1"> //level A
  <node>
    <nodes count="3"> //level B
      <node>
        <nodes count="2"> //level C
          <node />
          <node />
        </nodes>
      </node>
      <node>
        <nodes count="2"> //level C
          <node />
          <node />
        </nodes>
      </node>
      <node>
        <nodes count="2"> //level C
          <node />
          <node />
        </nodes>
      </node>
    </nodes>
  </node>
</nodes>

Does it more clear?

Daniel Ristic (daniel-ristic) said : #2

Thanks for the quick answer !

That's now perfectly clear.

Daniel Ristic (daniel-ristic) said : #3

Thanks Sébastien Heymann, that solved my question.