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Re: XML to UML

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• Subject: Re: XML to UML
• From: Pete Kirkham <pete.kirkham@b...>
• Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:40:49 +0000

For an overview of XML entitity modelling attempts, go to:

http://xml.coverpages.org/conceptualModeling.html

For generating UML models in XML, there is a pre-XMI format called UXF which is not 
as rich as XMI but easier to hand code:

http://www.yy.ics.keio.ac.jp/~suzuki/project/uxf/

Though this is not updated since 1999, it would be transformable into XMI, and is 
rich enough for what you want.  

Neither format specifies graph layout; XMI does allow tool specific extensions 
which would allow tools to embed layout in the XML, but not in a portable manner.  
Graphical tools therefore must add or generate this information when importing XMI.

>Maybe RDF or XLink for example could be used to represent each relationship
>more accurately? 

XMI uses XLink, UXF not.

It may actually be better to have a shorthand non-XML input (like previous thread 
on smart ascii) and then have something generate XMI from that, converting class 
names to IDs and creating the links etc.


Pete Kirkham



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