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xaligo

xaligo is a diagram-as-code engine for architecture and network diagrams. It renders the Vue-style .xal XML DSL to Excalidraw, SVG, PPTX, PDF, Excel, XYFlow, and Isoflow-compatible output.

The renderer is designed around a single shared pipeline:

.xal
  -> parser
  -> layout
  -> shared scene and routing
  -> output encoder
  -> Excalidraw | SVG | PPTX | PDF | Excel | XYFlow | Isoflow

Core features:

  • Vuetify-style layout primitives such as frames, rows, columns, spacing, and alignment.
  • AWS architecture group components and catalog-backed service icons.
  • Orthogonal connector routing with route and traffic layers.
  • Manual bend points in frame coordinates.
  • Group, rectangle, port, and item endpoints.
  • Excalidraw-friendly editable output.
  • Frame-oriented SVG, PPTX, PDF, and Excel output, with one frame mapped to one file, slide, page, or worksheet by default.
  • SVG and PPTX output with line jumps, legends, and export-focused routing.

Use this documentation when authoring .xal files, rendering output, or working on the xaligo codebase.

See Planned Work for upcoming and exploratory features.