Re: [relax-ng] UML, XML and Relax NG

[Josh Lubell <lubell@nist.gov>]

Although David Carlson's "Modeling XML Applications with UML" (Addison
Wesley) mentions WXS but not RELAX NG, his hyperModel tool  (see
http://xmlmodeling.com) can generate both WXS and RELAX NG schemas from XMI.
Carlson used to have a web-accessible form where you could upload an XMI
file and process it using hyperModel, but the website wasn't working the
last time I tried to use it. He has also implemented hyperModel as a plug-in
to Eclipse and is selling this as a commercial product. I haven't come
across any documentation for Carlson's UML-to-RELAX NG mapping.

The RELAX NG in my XML 2002 paper "From Model to Markup" was created using
the web-accessible hyperModel tool, although I had to tweak the output in
order to handle bidirectional UML associations and to use interleave
properly.

Regards,
Josh

Joshua Lubell, NIST
100 Burueau Drive, Stop 8263
Gaithersburg MD 20899-8263 USA
lubell@nist.gov

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>
To: "RELAX NG List" <relax-ng@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: [relax-ng] UML, XML and Relax NG


> Hi,
>
> I have done some quick researches on what is usually called "modelling
> XML with UML" and came to the conclusion that up to now it should rather
> be called "modelling W3C XML Schema with UML".
>
> This is done through defining profiles and stereotypes for UML and these
> stereotypes are created after WXS components (complex type for instance)
> which have no real life in XML documents...
>
> With this approach, to "model XML with UML", you need not only to learn
> XML and UML but also WXS!
>
> Are you aware of schema neutral profiles to model XML documents with UML
> using stereotypes corresponding to things which exist in the XML infoset
> (such as elements and attributes) and logical constructions on these
> (such as groups)?
>
> This would, obviously easily match Relax NG patterns, but could be used
> without knowing Relax NG and eventually with some more work from the
> tools generate WXS as well...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
> --
> Did you know it? Python has now a Relax NG (partial) implementation.
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