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From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:41:05 +0100

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As I look through the XML Schema specification I see no UML diagrams.

As I look through the GML specification I see many UML diagrams.

Are UML diagrams not relevant/useful for data models in the first sense? Are UML diagrams only relevant/useful for data models in the second sense?

I suspect that the kind of people who define models like the XML schema model and the relational model are more comfortable with maths and legalese English than with pictures. So I think it tells you more about the psychology of the individuals concerned than anything else.

Michael Kay

Saxonica

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