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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:12:44 -0500
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On 12/15/2010 1:03 PM, David Price wrote:
> Perhaps John and others are unaware of the failure of XMI
> for UML tools? I was shocked myself as I tried moving/processing
> UML/SysML models. At the OMG meeting where the model interchange group
> got started I made the statement that 'XMI is a complete failure in
> industry' and nobody, not even the UML vendors, could disagree. It's
> OMG's dirty little secret I guess.    (01)

Yes.  XMI was a disaster for one very simple reason:  they got lost
in a huge syntactic mess onto which they piled a monstrous list of
vaguely specified requirements that buried the underlying logic and
ontology in a huge mess of garbage.    (02)

John    (03)

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