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Note

This documents the development version of NetworkX. Documentation for the current release can be found here.

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GraphML

GraphML

Read and write graphs in GraphML format.

This implementation does not support mixed graphs (directed and unidirected edges together), hyperedges, nested graphs, or ports.

“GraphML is a comprehensive and easy-to-use file format for graphs. It consists of a language core to describe the structural properties of a graph and a flexible extension mechanism to add application-specific data. Its main features include support of

  • directed, undirected, and mixed graphs,

  • hypergraphs,

  • hierarchical graphs,

  • graphical representations,

  • references to external data,

  • application-specific attribute data, and

  • light-weight parsers.

Unlike many other file formats for graphs, GraphML does not use a custom syntax. Instead, it is based on XML and hence ideally suited as a common denominator for all kinds of services generating, archiving, or processing graphs.”

http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/

Format

GraphML is an XML format. See http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/specification.html for the specification and http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/primer/graphml-primer.html for examples.

read_graphml(path[, node_type, …])

Read graph in GraphML format from path.

write_graphml(G, path[, encoding, …])

Write G in GraphML XML format to path

generate_graphml(G[, encoding, prettyprint, …])

Generate GraphML lines for G

parse_graphml(graphml_string[, node_type, …])

Read graph in GraphML format from string.