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open source UML diagram export? #23

Open MaartenVL opened 3 years ago

MaartenVL commented 3 years ago

Hello all,

would it be possible to have a similar workflow but starting from an opensource UML drawing? I'm looking at draw.io, which allows to draw UMLs like this: image

It can be exported an an XML file (they seem to be exported in an compressed format but they can be decoded again). Is this something that would be technically possible? Usefull in scope of OSLO? I like the idea of converting an UML to a RDF, but it feels slightly off that this step is locked behind a paid software.

Thanks for the input and work!

Best Maarten

bertvannuffelen commented 3 years ago

Hi Maarten,

Actually the problem is the drawing language. draw.io registers a drawing in XML not a UML document. If one wants to convert UML to RDF then we need to transform a format that contains UML instead of a drawing. XMI is then the ideal candidate. Converting from draw.io XML results in the same lockin as converting from EA.

Note that for this approach the ability to add tags to the symbol is important. Because the tags define the URIs. So any graphical language that allows that is a good candidate.

But lifting this dependency is on our wish list.

kr,

Bert