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features-tree/tree-to-dot.el

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(defun declare-node (node-text node-generation)
"Declares a node in the graphviz source code. The nodes identifier will be
~node-generation~, and it will bear the label ~node-text~."
(concat (number-to-string node-generation)
"[label=\""
node-text
"\"];"))
(defun make-link (previous-node current-node)
"This creates a link in the graphviz source code between the two nodes
bearing ~previous-node~ and ~current-node~ respectively as their node
identifier."
(concat (number-to-string previous-node) " -- "
(number-to-string current-node) ";"))
(defun tree-to-dot-helper (tree current-generation previous-generation)
"Helper to ~tree-to-dot~ that translates an Elisp tree with any number of
children per node to a corresponding graphviz file that can be executed from
dot.
Arguments:
- tree :: tree-to-convert
- current-generation :: Generation number, incremented when changing from a node
to another node from the same generation, multiplied by 10 when going from
a node to one of its children.
- previous-generation :: generation number from previous named node"
(cond
((null tree) "")
((atom (car tree)) ;; '("text" () () ())
(concat (declare-node (car tree) current-generation)
(make-link previous-generation current-generation)
(tree-to-dot-helper (cdr tree)
(+ 1 (* 10 current-generation))
current-generation)))
((listp (car tree)) ;; '(() () ())
(concat (tree-to-dot-helper (car tree) ;; child of current node
current-generation
previous-generation)
(tree-to-dot-helper (cdr tree)
(+ 1 current-generation)
previous-generation)))))
(defun tree-to-dot (tree)
"Returns a graphvizs dot compatible string representing an Elisp tree"
(interactive)
(if (null tree) ""
(concat
"graph{node[shape=plaintext];graph[bgcolor=\"transparent\"];"
(declare-node (car tree) 0)
(tree-to-dot-helper (cdr tree) 1 0)
"}")))