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

[Martijn van Beers <martijn earthling net>]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:30:14PM +0200, 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)).

Some more links:
http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/00-02-02
for doing everything IDL does in UML

and
ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ad/99-10-02.pdf
http://cgi.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/tech2a.html#mod
for the latest XMI spec


James Henstridge told me he would gladly accept a patch to dia to do
XMI exporting, and I think you can add hooks to actions on dia objects,
so turning dia into a full-fledged uml editor shouldn't be impossible.


Martijn
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