ditaa and asciiflow

[I am Baas]

ditaa transforms ASCII art into graphical diagrams.

http://ditaa.org/ditaa/

http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

My primary goal when creating this website was to provide a simple way to embed flow diagrams or drawings within emails, blogs, text based media. However, since starting development it has started to become more than this, with a link to export drawings to DITAA, as well as sharing and saving.

http://www.asciiflow.com/

[webfork]

ditaa transforms ASCII art into graphical diagrams.

As I was reading about this, I found myself wishing for a flowchart markup language that could then get dumped into one of any given processing / mapping tools. Does one exist? I know there's XML-based DITA (unrelated to DITAA), but that's pretty specialized.