plantuml/README.md

PlantUML
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Generate UML diagram from textual description

PlantUML is a component that allows to quickly write:

 * [Sequence diagram](http://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram),
 * [Use case diagram](http://plantuml.com/use-case-diagram),
 * [Class diagram](http://plantuml.com/class-diagram),
 * [Object diagram](http://plantuml.com/object-diagram),
 * [Activity diagram](http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-beta) (here is [the legacy syntax](http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy)),
 * [Component diagram](http://plantuml.com/component-diagram),
 * [Deployment diagram](http://plantuml.com/deployment-diagram),
 * [State diagram](http://plantuml.com/state-diagram),
 * [Timing diagram](http://plantuml.com/timing-diagram).
 
The following non-UML diagrams are also supported:
 * [JSON data](http://plantuml.com/json)
 * [YAML data](http://plantuml.com/yaml)
 * [Network diagram (nwdiag)](http://plantuml.com/nwdiag)
 * [Wireframe graphical interface or UI mockups (salt)](http://plantuml.com/salt)
 * [Archimate diagram](http://plantuml.com/archimate-diagram)
 * [Specification and Description Language (SDL)](http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-beta#sdl)
 * [Ditaa diagram](http://plantuml.com/ditaa)
 * [Gantt diagram](http://plantuml.com/gantt-diagram)
 * [MindMap diagram](http://plantuml.com/mindmap-diagram)
 * [Work Breakdown Structure diagram (WBS)](http://plantuml.com/wbs-diagram)
 * [Mathematic with AsciiMath or JLaTeXMath notation](http://plantuml.com/ascii-math)
 * [Entity Relationship diagram (IE/ER)](http://plantuml.com/ie-diagram)

Furthermore:
 * [Hyperlinks and tooltips](http://plantuml.com/link)
 * [Creole](http://plantuml.com/creole): rich text, emoticons, unicode, icons
 * [OpenIconic icons](http://plantuml.com/openiconic)
 * [Sprite icons](http://plantuml.com/sprite)
 * [AsciiMath mathematical expressions](http://plantuml.com/ascii-math)

To know more about PlantUML, please visit https://plantuml.com/