Entity Relationship diagram from text tool

Question

Is there any ER tool that can generate the model using textual input? I am currently using dia which is an awesome tool, but i am looking for something which accepts text as input.

Thanks

Answer 1

you can use vision by direct take input from <xml> though Visio does not support the XML data source unless you have an ODBC driver or OLE DB driver that can read from the <XML> file.

Then you can make the ER diagram from the textual inputs.

Hope this one helps you

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but still searching the same.

Actually I found a pretty nice tool but not open source : https://dbdiagram.io

May it Help.

Answer 3

Another option would be erd. From the project description, it:

translates a plain text description of a relational database schema to a graphical entity-relationship diagram.

Sounds like the kind of thing the OP was looking for.