[Uml-devel] XMI is not standar?

Andrew Sutton asutton at cs.kent.edu
Fri Sep 12 11:50:01 UTC 2003


>     well, as far as I had seen, no UML app can load an xmi file. I
> realize that in the xmi file only the abstract model is defined, and
> that any app that would like to import such file should do an automatic
> relayout'ing, may be using algorithms similar to those of graphviz.

with all the "variations" on xmi, its no wonder. interoperability should be 
significantly increased when the 2.0 family of standards becomes more stable. 
although, xmi hasn't gotten any less complicated.

> > picture. moreover, you should actually be able to support a set of
> > stereotypes for an object (more than one).
>
>     my question was, and I realize that it was too general, that if one
> can apply stereotypes to anythin with umbrello. it still may be the app
> I'm looking for.

not really. that's a good deficiency. somebody should write a bug report.

andy





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