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Topic Title: Importing XMI from Enterprise Architect
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Created On: 11-Jan-2006 11:27
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 11-Jan-2006 11:27
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Dan Smithers

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I am trying to export from Enterprise Architect to import to Tau in XMI format.

The first problem I find is that EA exports using Windows-1252 encoding and Tau doesn't understand this. Surely there must be a way of getting Tau to use the Windows encoding

I can edit the XML to correct the encoding.

The problem then is that there are duplicate GUIDs in the model that Tau falls over. Is there a setting that will prevent this?

I also tried exporting from Tau, but EA fails to import this as it doesn't like the names exported.
e.g. Tau exports a name

Error code 0xc00ce504
char 97
description A name was started with an invalid character

i.e. EA doesn't accept &" at the end of a name.

Error code 0xc00ce504
char 267
description The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value.

i.e. template specialisations can't be used.

Is there any way round this? or are the two systems fundementally different in their interpretation of XMI?

thanks

dan

Edited: 11-Jan-2006 at 11:32 by Dan Smithers

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 13-Jan-2006 09:58
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Dan Smithers

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I have corrected the encoding, and now can import the model. The sequence diagrams are not imported though which is pretty useless.
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 21-Jan-2006 21:24
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Gunnar Andersson

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What do you need to do more specifically to correct the encoding?
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 23-Jan-2006 08:58
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Dan Smithers

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The short answer, is just to edit the string at the head of the XMI file.

The correct way to do it is to change the output in EA on the Tools | Options menu, XML Specifications Code page box.

dan

Edited: 23-Jan-2006 at 08:58 by Dan Smithers

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 23-Jan-2006 10:56
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Greg Gorman

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Please make sure you submit a defect that the fact that the sequence diagrams are missing. If you can, also include a sample XMI output so we can take a look at why since they are imported for Rose models.

The importer is only supported for Rose XMI models, but anything that we can do to help make it better is good.

Greg

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Greg Gorman
Vice President, Product Management
Modeling and Test Products
Telelogic AB
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