Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

I’m pulling out my hair.

I was assigned a mercy-kill project, they brought me in literally *after* QA arrived to “tidy up the UI”. Anyway, the application is built in IceFaces, ie AJAX. So there are literally just 2 webpages in the entire application, the login XHTML and the maintemplate XHTML in which the app resides.

Nevertheless, there are many view states in this app which we do call “pages” and are based out of XHTML files. I want to create a sitemap to keep track of these pages and the important things that need to be fixed, however a typical XML Sitemap generator will only pop out two XHTML pages when there are actually over 100 “pages” being generated in this online application.

So, what I did was “drew” the sitemap in this nifty little tool at writemaps.com. It allows me to export a legitimate (apparently) XML Sitemap. It gives you the code and you can do what you want with it.

So here’s my question:

Are there any apps that let me import the XML to redraw the diagram in a more “office-savvy” tool like Visio?

If there are, I can’t find them! I’ve been searching all over but all I can find are the actual tools that crawl through a site and map it out in XML. I don’t want that… I want an application that will IMPORT the XML Sitemap that I already have and DRAW IT.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

—Jeff