--- Andrew Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Hi, > > > >Is there a path for transitioning Rose models to dia/UML? > > > IMO this is impossible. The petal file is closed-secret-proprietary > and > even if it could be reserve engineered the format is subject to > change > without notice.
Fine. You are right, I have answered a differnt question. Why Petal, why not XMI? > I would much rather that there was a suitable open > standard then RatRose and Dia could both conform to it. Unfortunately > I > don't think that XMI is quite good enough yet. I don't know, personally I think XMI is *BAD*, but it would be good enought for exchanging with ArgoUML. > Other standards are > currently being worked on. Which ones? pray tell? > In the meantime XML seems the best way to > go to > me, since it would then be possible to write XSLT translators when a > standard is finally agreed on. Well, XMI is a good example of a very hard to use XML format. Mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
