DTD to UML

[Dave Carlson]

Henry,
You are still one step ahead of the game on this one.  However, the interest
is growing in use of UML to model XML.

I've seen two proposals for adding UML stereotypes that support generation
of XML schemas (DTDs and XML Schema) from the UML class model.  Plus, there
is the OMG XMI spec for a full-blown XML DTD generation from a complete UML
model.  But, going in the reverse -- DTD to UML -- is a bit trickier.  I
have not seen anyone try this yet. It may require some assumptions and/or
design patterns in the DTD that allow you to reverse the forward-direction
mappings.

Check out this white paper from Rational/CommerceOne on mapping UML to XML
schemas:
    http://www.rational.com/uml/resources/documentation/xmlschema33.pdf

Plus, this proposal from Eliot Kimber
  http://www.drmacro.com/hyprlink/uml-dtds.pdf

I find the Rational et al paper to be more straightforward.

Cheers,
  Dave Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: <henry_fieglein at dgbank.de>
To: <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: DTD to UML


Does anyone know of a tool which converts a DTD to a UML (or Rational Rose
Diagram)?

Thanks,
Henry Fieglein
DG Bank



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