UML Designer User's Guide


Publishing models

The UML Designer publishing features can generate formatted output based on the contents of your model (or a subset of your model), in either HTML or RTF format.

Publishing is a two-step process:

A Publication element defines the structure and content of a published document based on your model. It consists of a series of Topic elements, arranged in a hierarchical fashion; the arrangement of Topic elements corresponds to the organizational structure of the document that will be produced.

Each Topic element contains a text element; this text is what will appear in the final output. The text can consist of literal text or hypertext links (which will be resolved when you generate the final output).

There are two basic ways to publish your model:


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