[Andromda-user] RE: about together controlcenter xmi outputs

[Anthony M. <to...@am...>]

I am cross posting this email to the MDR mailing list in case someone =
there has a comment. Or some suggestions.  It would be nice if all the =
CASE tool vendors verified their XMI output using some XMI Reader =
standard.  Of course I'd like them to use the MDR one :-)

The Together XMI output type 'XMI 1.1 for UML 1.4 (OMG)' appears to have =
a few errors in it. =20

I detected what I believe to be at least 3 errors in the output.  Two of =
the errors appear to be serious XML errors that prevent the file from =
being correctly processed by an XSL transformer.  The errors even =
prevented my XML browser from displaying the file. =20

The third error is easily corrected using XSL, but the XSL =
transformation cannot be done until the first two errors have been =
corrected.

I have attached the XSL file which will make a Together XMI readable by =
the NetBeans MDR.  But, remember this XSL file cannot be used until the =
first 2 XML errors have been corrected.

1) First line of file reads:

  <?xml version =3D '1.0' encoding =3D 'UTF8' ?>

The above line prevents an XSL processor from reading the file.  It =
should read:

   <?xml version =3D '1.0' encoding =3D 'UTF-8' ?>


2) Second line of file reads:

  <XMI xmi.version =3D '1.1' xmlns:UML =3D '//org.omg/UML/1.3'>

I believe that this is not valid namespace syntax given that it causes =
the XSL processor to complain. The above line should read:

  <XMI xmi.version =3D '1.1' xmlns:UML =3D 'org.omg/UML/1.3'>

*NOTE: I actually believe they are outputting UML 1.4 not UML 1.3.

3) All instances of:

<UML:StructuralFeature.type>
   <UML:Classifier>
     <UML:Namespace.ownedElement>
       <UML:DataType xmi.idref =3D 'G.4'/>
     </UML:Namespace.ownedElement>
   </UML:Classifier>
</UML:StructuralFeature.type>

should be converted to:

<UML:StructuralFeature.type>
  <UML:DataType xmi.idref =3D 'G.4'/>
</UML:StructuralFeature.type>