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"Doyle, Michael J" <michael.j.doyle@g...> writes:
> How valuable is UML for this process now? Are the translation tools better
> than what's available for XML (pointers to such tools would be appreciated)?
> Or can XML Schema serve effectively as the "model"?
I would urge a degree of caution here. It is _possible_ to do your
ontology at the same time you design your documents, but they _are_
two different things. XML Schema is about documents. UML is, I
presume, about ontology. For small-scale and/or straightforward
projects, you can get away with doing domain analysis [= ontology] and
document design simultaneously, but only as long as you take careful
note when the constraints of the XML tree-structure-with-links data
model is in tension with the 'natural' domain ontology.
ht
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