Production Rules for UML -> XML Conversion

[Thomas Lee <ytlee@eti.hku.hk>]

Hi,

I would like to know where I could understand more about how to convert
a UML schema into an XML schema, or a UML instance specification to an
XML specification. The Technical Architecture document mentions about a
set of "Production Rules" that does the conversion. Any example for
those production rules? Can XMI do a perfect conversion from all UML
views to ebXML-compliant specfications? Seems it cannot.

To be specific, is there any software or a deterministic mechanism to
convert a UML activity diagram used for modeling a business transaction
(e.g. the "RequestInventoryReport" transaction in P.95 in the bpOVER) to
a BPSS specification in XML? What's about conversions for other views,
e.g. a class diagram for a core component to an XML form of core
component? Are these to be done manually?

Where can I find more examples on conversion between UML and XML
specifications?

Thank you for your advice.

Regards,
Thomas

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Thomas Y T Lee
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