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For an overview of XML entitity modelling attempts, go to:
http://xml.coverpages.org/conceptualModeling.html
For generating UML models in XML, there is a pre-XMI format called UXF which is not
as rich as XMI but easier to hand code:
http://www.yy.ics.keio.ac.jp/~suzuki/project/uxf/
Though this is not updated since 1999, it would be transformable into XMI, and is
rich enough for what you want.
Neither format specifies graph layout; XMI does allow tool specific extensions
which would allow tools to embed layout in the XML, but not in a portable manner.
Graphical tools therefore must add or generate this information when importing XMI.
>Maybe RDF or XLink for example could be used to represent each relationship
>more accurately?
XMI uses XLink, UXF not.
It may actually be better to have a shorthand non-XML input (like previous thread
on smart ascii) and then have something generate XMI from that, converting class
names to IDs and creating the links etc.
Pete Kirkham
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