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Guadala Harry
I have a need to display nodes in a hierarchy - an inverted tree of sorts -
but a bit more complicated than a simple tree or set of inverted trees. The
nodes I'm dealing with exist in a definite hierarchy, however any given node
can have more than one parent and can have multiple children (except for the
top/root nodes). This is different than a tree in that in a tree, any given
node can have at most one parent.
Anyway, I need to display these nodes and their relationships graphically on
an Web page. I'd appreciate some suggestions for how to accomplish this
visual display. I don't think I can use a simple tree/list view (like in
Windows Explorer) because in those, any given node can have at most one
parent (unless the node is displayed more than once - which I don't want to
do). I'd be happy just to even have some boxes containing a short bit of
text (to represent a node) and some connecting lines - but how to accomplish
this? Note: The nodes and their relationships are stored in a database, and
the graphical representation must be created at runtime.
Thanks!
but a bit more complicated than a simple tree or set of inverted trees. The
nodes I'm dealing with exist in a definite hierarchy, however any given node
can have more than one parent and can have multiple children (except for the
top/root nodes). This is different than a tree in that in a tree, any given
node can have at most one parent.
Anyway, I need to display these nodes and their relationships graphically on
an Web page. I'd appreciate some suggestions for how to accomplish this
visual display. I don't think I can use a simple tree/list view (like in
Windows Explorer) because in those, any given node can have at most one
parent (unless the node is displayed more than once - which I don't want to
do). I'd be happy just to even have some boxes containing a short bit of
text (to represent a node) and some connecting lines - but how to accomplish
this? Note: The nodes and their relationships are stored in a database, and
the graphical representation must be created at runtime.
Thanks!