Re: [Gnome-devtools] What we're doing.

[Andrew Sutton <asutton21 home com>]

Olof Oberg wrote:
> 
> Andrew Sutton wrote:
> > i've been thinking about this the last 3 weeks now... how to build a uml
> > modeler without doing anything new. using dia definitely crossed my
> > mind. i also thought it would be really cool to base it of SVG. then it
> > can be displayed in any SVG compatible browser - or some component that
> > does that. but that's implementation. i'm still looking at
> > technologies...
> [snip]
> Using SVG would make it close to impossible to reverse the
> transformation (SVG -> UML). Take a look at http://www.omg.org/uml/
> for references to XMI - UML expressed using an application of XML.
> Or maybe building upon RDF http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/uml/
> (read the archives of www-rdf-interest at w3.org (April and May this year)).

thanks for the tip,

Andrew Sutton
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