Thanks! I understand now. I'll look into the deserializing library and just write to file the way I would like to.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Adam Lally <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Neal Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I see that in the UIMA reference it's possible to have Primitive Feature > > Types as XML Elements instead of Attributes. > > > > > > > http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/references.html#ugr.ref.xmi.primitive_features > > > > > > Does this become a part of the CAS XMI? And if so, how does one make the > > switch from attributes to elements? Does it have to be a separate CAS > > Consumer, or can make a change in the Type System Descriptor, or even the > > Java Code for the Analysis Engine? > > > > Hi, > > UIMA's XMI Serializer always writes primitive features as attributes. The > deserializer should be able to read either format. I think the meaning of > that reference is to define that a valid XMI CAS could represent attributes > in either way, but it was not meant to say that UIMA has the capability to > produce it both ways. > > -Adam >
