We have now created a graphical language to model family trees and have been able to draw our first Family Tree diagram with it. Is there anything else we can do?

In many cases it would be very desirable to be able to produce various outputs of the information stored in a Family Tree diagram, e.g. as web pages, who’s who entries, etc. This can be done with MetaEdit+’s report generator. As an example, let’s generate a web page from our Family Tree diagram.

Select Graph | Generate... from the menu bar of the Diagram Editor containing our ‘Simpson’ Family Tree diagram (or press the Generate button in the Diagram Editor’s action toolbar). A list of the available pre-defined reports will appear. Choose ‘Export graph to HTML’ from the list (as in Figure 4-8) and press OK.

MetaEdit+ now produces the HTML output, reports the success of the generation and opens the generated web page in your default browser (Figure 4-9).

You can click the individual objects in the diagram in the browser to see their properties, relationships and subgraphs (if any).