Adding `gexf` library as a dependency

Run this command in a terminal, in your project's directory:

cargo add gexf

To add it manually, edit your project's Cargo.toml file and add to the [dependencies] section:

gexf = "0.1.1"

The gexf library will be automatically available globally. Read the gexf library documentation.

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Readme

gexf

A tiny, dependency-light Rust library to export graphs to the GEXF format, compatible with Gephi and other tools.

Features

Directed / undirected / mutual graphs (defaultedgetype)
Node labels and arbitrary attributes
Gephi viz extras: position, size, color
Metadata (<meta>): creator, description, last modified date
Write to any std::io::Write sink or straight to String

Quick start

cargo add gexf

use gexf::{GraphBuilder, EdgeType, Node};

let gexf = GraphBuilder::new(EdgeType::Directed)
    .meta("my-app", "Sample")
    .add_node(Node::new("n0").with_label("Alice"))?
    .add_node(Node::new("n1").with_label("Bob"))?
    .add_edge("n0", "n1")?
    .try_build()?;

let xml = gexf.to_string()?; // or gexf.write(File::create("graph.gexf")?)

Notes

This crate emits GEXF 1.3 with the viz namespace (viz:*).
Dynamic graphs (spells, time slices) are not supported.
Attributes here are simple key–value pairs written under <attvalues>. The full <attributes> schema is not supported.

Disclaimer

This crate was mostly developed by ChatGPT. I only cleaned it up and fixed a bunch of bugs.

Adding gexf library as a dependency

Adding `gexf` library as a dependency