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  • 1.  RE: [ubl] A Prototype Schema for UBL Models

    Posted 05-25-2004 11:36 
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    I did 
one of those for UBL about 16 months ago.  See the attached (and perhaps 
oddly named) UMLModel.xsd.
    

     
    

    At 
that time, I used to load the UBL model (spreadsheet) into Excel (the new 
version -- that outputs XML) and then I'd save it as XML.  I used the 
attached stylesheets to convert from Excel's proprietary vocabulary into the 
"UMLModel" one by running them in this order:
    

     
    

    fatten-excel -> spreadsheet-to-UML-model-no-asoc -> 
resolve-association-ends -> define-associations
    

     
    

    normalize-identifier is a utility called from the other 
transforms.
    

     
    

    The 
value I saw of this over XMI was that the vocabulary was more tailored to the 
modeling language we'd chosen for UBL -- so there was a tighter fit.  Also, 
the vocab is considerably smaller (though less well documented :) than XMI so it 
was presumably easier to learn.
    

     
    

    I've 
got some additional pipelines that fit on the end of this one to generate 
pictures of UBL too.  Well, _old_ UBL.
    

     
    

    -Bill
    

    
  
    
  

    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                
    
                                                
                                            
    
                                        

                                        
                                        

                                    
			

                                    
                                

                                
                                
    
                                
    
                            
		
                
        
    




            
        
    


	
    


    
    
         
    
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