RE: Linkbases, Topic Maps, and RDF Knowledge Bases -- help me

[Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>]

I may be wrong, isn't the purpose of UML to allow it to model all different
kinds of things? (hence Unified)
i.e. part of the U of UML was to bring in ER?


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Danny Ayers
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<- -----Original Message-----
<- From: Al Snell [mailto:alaric@alaric-snell.com]
<- Sent: 14 April 2001 22:48
<- To: Murali Mani
<- Cc: Uche Ogbuji; xml-dev
<- Subject: Re: Linkbases, Topic Maps, and RDF Knowledge Bases -- help me
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<- On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Murali Mani wrote:
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<- > Also one thing which I was wondering was do people use UML for data
<- > modeling? I think ER is the tool, UML is just more like a programming
<- > model.
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<- I use UML in the projects I work on to model that kind of stuff - the
<- class diagrams contain the necessary semantics, although it's been a long
<- while since I last drew one, so I can't remember the details :-)
<-
<- I wouldn't describe UML as a "programming model", more as a series of
<- specifications for types of diagram to explain different parts of a
<- program's structure - but that may be what you meant anyway.
<- Only a *part*
<- of UML corresponds to an ER diagram, and it's also used to express class
<- hierarchies, and some other things too :-)
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<- >
<- > regards - murali.
<- >
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