Re: Fantasies

["William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>]

Mark Crawford asked Kris Ketels for the "SWIFT draft design rules for
this 'automatic' mapping between UML and XML."

Stuart Campbell was kind enough to attach an e-mail describing where to
find the "swiftML design rules Technical Specification;" see
http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200104/msg00028.html.
Basically, you go to http://www.swift.com/, and under "Products &
Services," select "swiftML" on the left.

So now I'm convinced that some people can go from UML models to schemas.
That's nice, and I never doubted that it could be done.  But that
doesn't address  the main point I was making regarding the fantasy of
auto-conversion between syntaxes, e.g., UN/EDIFACT and ebXML Core
Components. And after all this time, we still don't have an agreed-upon
approach to building Core Components;  nay, we don't even agree on what
a core component is!  Are we in trouble?

William J. Kammerer
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