Appendice: Graphical user interface chart

Channels

channel	_null_
_stdin_	_stdout_
feedback	test

Process components

generator	serializer
merge	dispatch
apply-ruleset	apply-query
apply-process	apply-external
repeat

Principles

• Colors are left unspecified(but the grey for external processes), they can be exploited by GUIs for particular purposes.
• The information flows from left to right in the channels (this order can be reversed freely for other cultures). This is true for everything but the Test and Feedback channels which have an explicit arrow on them.
• The ports can be presented or not.
• Labels on processes can be presented or not. If they are present, they must correspond to the id attribute of the components
• Label on channels are usually not presented because they are not meaningful
• Labels on ports are usually not presented but ports can be identified form top to bottom (subject to locale adaptation) by their appearance order.

Example

This is an example in the old charter.

The following example is in the new charter (it displays an example where the ports of transformations are made visible):

Here they are presented under the FlowComposer graphic user interface to Transmorpher:

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