Under the covers

Under the covers

There doesn't appear to be a page on this wiki dedicated to describing the design of the system for potential developers of plugins etc. This page is meant to fill that gap. Please add whatever documentation you would consider to be necessary to turn a professional java developer into a freemind developer. Thanks (and sorry if such information already exists in a collated form elsewhere) --Violetlight 12:41, 4 Aug 2006 (PDT)

The File Format

Let's start with a link to the stated requirements (these could be inlined later on) at File Format Requirements.

Now an inlined version of the XML schema:

Discussion on potential design changes

I've left a section here for discussion on changes in the above (rather than use the discussion page).
This may or may not be useful, but discussion leads to innovation... --Violetlight 12:32, 4 Aug 2006 (PDT)

Other sources of design/development information

You should also see the Development page, which describes & discusses the project's development process and some internal details.