Import/Export With Freemind

FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/) is an open source software, which written in Java. It's designed for mind map creating. FreeMind has an XML-based format. Argos allows users to export a viewpoint to Freemind, edit the exported viewpoint, and import it to a new viewpoint on Argos.

Requirement

FreeMind 0.9 RC3
Firefox and RESTClient extension

Export to Freemind

There are two ways to export a viewpoint:

Export a specific viewpoint with a query string. For example, to export viewpoint #1, you can send a GET request to following URL: http://www.argosserver.com/viewpoint/1/?freemind
Export a specific viewpoint with a HTTP request header. You can specify a certain media type, in mime format, by Accept header (e.g. 'Accept: application/x-freemind).

Import from Freemind

You can import a viewpoint to Argos server by POST method with a specific HTTP request header 'Content-Type: application/x-freemind'.

Here is an example:

POST /viewpoint/ HTTP/1.1
Host:  	www.argosserver.com
User-Agent: 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Content-Type:	application/x-freemind
Accept: 	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Keep-Alive: 	300
Connection: 	keep-alive

Screencast

Export a viewpoint for FreeMind software.

Download here. Size: 11M, Duration: 1 minutes, 43 seconds

Create a mind map with FreeMind, and import the mind map to Argos server.

Download here. Size: 26M, Duration: 5 minutes, 42 seconds

Freemind XML Fromat

TODO

Import/Export resources.

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