Re: NIM requirements/conventions for textual representations

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

The UML standards include a textual representation format.
In about 20 minutes of looking (on a previous project), I was unable to 
locate an example of the representation, but I think it is SGML-like.

I have not seen any trace of any tool that attempts to work with the 
textual representation rather than the graphics.

                    Harald


At 13:06 23.05.2000 -0700, Durham, David wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am wondering if the textual representations requirement should be left as
>stated. Most of the people I've talked to consider UML (or a subset thereof)
>a relatively agnostic way to represent the model. The textual representation
>of that might as well be MIBs, MOFs, pure ASN.1, XML, etc. So perhaps, the
>textual representation requirement should be rephrased to imply a textual
>mapping of the UML. The real requirement then is that there should be
>algorithmic mappings standardized for two or more of the most-loved data
>representations. The NIM working group, then, would be responsible for
>providing the standard mappings documents.
>
>-Dave

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
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