Re: writing collection of refobjects through xmiwriter

Hi Brian,

Brian Smith wrote:
> The getDocumentURI() returns the URI to the _document_, not the XML 
> element representing the object. Using the getDocumentURI(), the 
> XMIWriter can determine if two objects are in the same document. The 
> getLocation() method returns the path _inside_ the document. For 
> example, if you have http://www.foo.com/mof.xml#String then 
> getDocumentURI() will return "http://www.foo.com/mof.xml" and 
> getLocation() would return "#String". If you wanted to insist that the 
> URI's are always in the form <document-uri>#<xmi.id> then you wouldn't 
> need the getLocation() method. But, if you want more flexibility (e.g. 
> the ability to do full XPointers or some other format), then you would 
> need the getLocation() method to do that.

do you think that this is important? i would rather have only two 
methods - getDocumentURI and getXMIID and write hrefs in form 
<documentURI>#<xmi.id>. I think this format is a standard format for 
hrefs in XMI. Do you think it is too limiting?
Martin