RE: XMI 1.3?

Oops,
This is a cock-up in the OMG publishing process which I will aim to get
sorted out.
The original document was called 'XMI Production of XML Schemas' and
that introduced a new document format to make best use of XML Schemas
(called XMI 2.0) and way to use XML Schemas to validate existing XMI 1.2
documents (the schemas would be the equivalent of the XMI 1.2 DTDs).
The intention was to merge the XMI Schema rules for XMI 1.2 into the
document for XMI 1.2 in order to produce a spec coping with both schemas
and DTDs for the XMI 1.2 document format.
Note that at XMI 2.0 that the document format has changed quite a bit
and DTDs are no longer supported.

So to answer your real question, you need to treat what's published as
XMI 1.3 as a supplement to XMI 1.2.

(I was on the Task Force for this so can speak with some authority)
Thanks for bringing this to my intention.

Pete

Pete Rivett ([email protected])
Consulting Architect, Adaptive Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Juknevicius [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 07 July 2003 09:45
> To: mdr-dev
> Subject: [mdr-dev] XMI 1.3?
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Just recently i've looked at the OMG site, and there is a new 
> XMI1.3 formal release, together with the XMI 2.0.  I've  
> looked at the 1.3 spec and it is very lean. 46 pages or so. 
> It contains only the rules for XML Schema production. Does 
> this mean that the XMI document production rules did not 
> change from 1.2 to 1.3??
> 
> More specifically: if we have a tool, which produces/consumes 
> the XMI1.2 documents, but doesn't produce/consume DTDs nor 
> Schemas (e.g. simple UML tool), can this tool claim XMI1.3 
> compatibility?
> 
> Can anyone, with the more intimate knowledge of the OMGs XMI 
> cooking process, comment on this? I think mr. Matula has some 
> presence there? Do you know anything about this, Martin?
> 
> Drat, the OMG specs are not very informative; and the 
http://www.omg.org/issues/xmi-rtf.html#Issue3843 issue is needed badly
:-(

one more issue: on the xmi1.3 spec (formal/03-05-01) , 2.2.2 paragraph
(Fixed Schema Declarations), i see the  following: <attribute
name="xmi.version" type="string" use="required" fixed="1.1"/>

what about that XMI version number? shouldn't it be 1.3 instead, or at
least 1.2? Or maybe this is intentional, and these Schema production
rules do apply to XMI1.1 documments too?

--
Tomas Juknevicius
Senior Programmer
No Magic Lithuanian Development Center
e-mail: Tomas_dot_Juknevicius_at_nomagic_dot_com
WWW: http://www.magicdraw.com



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