Re: (urgent) UML links just broke

Works for me.

Thanks,
Ian


On 22 Sep 2009, at 14:31, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>
> OMG put the old documents back, so I'm sticking with the earlier text.
> (I'm a little suspicious that your new MOF link is 2003, when we were
> using a 2006 one.   I kind of prefered Michael's links...)
>
> Let's talk to OMG and ask what URL they want us to use, going forward,
> and switch to that at some point during PR.
>
>    -- Sandro
>
>> Looking at the UML 2.1.2 document it claims that the standard =20
>> document URL is http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/Infrastructure/ 
>> PDF =20
>> -- I therefore changed the URL in /References/ref-uml to be this one.
>>
>> I also changed the MOF URL to http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/=20
>> 03-10-04.pdf as this seems to be the latest working one. For =20
>> consistency with the other references I also added this url as  
>> part =20
>> of the reference to give:
>>
>> [MOF]
>> Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core Specification, version 2.0. Object  
>> =20
>> Management Group, OMG Available Specification January 2006, http:// 
>> =20
>> www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/03-10-04.pdf.
>>
>> However, I am also perfectly happy if you prefer to remove the  
>> live =20
>> links on the grounds that they don't seem to be properly maintained.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> On 22 Sep 2009, at 07:48, Michael Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sandro, all!
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-=20
>>>> request@w3.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:18 AM
>>>> To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
>>>> Subject: (urgent) UML links just broke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The links from Overview and Syntax to UML and MOF are broken.  I  
>>>> =20
>>>> think
>>>> this just happened today; I guess OMG decided to get rid of the old
>>>> copies of their specs.  Now the PDFs are 404.  We can't publish  
>>>> this
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>> In Syntax, Overview, and NFR, we use:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/References/ref-uml
>>>> [UML]
>>>>    OMG Unified Modeling Language (OMG UML), Infrastructure,
>>>>    V2.1.2. Object Management Group, OMG Available Specification,
>>>>    November 2007, http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/07-11-04.pdf.
>>>>
>>>> and, in Syntax:
>>>>
>>>> [MOF]
>>>>    Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core Specification, version 2.0.  
>>>> Object
>>>>    Management Group, OMG Available Specification January 2006.
>>>>
>>>>    with a link to: http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/06-01-01.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Those pdf links are now, suddenly, 404.
>>>>
>>>> Poking around a little, I think maybe the right links to use are:
>>>>   http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/
>>>>   http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/
>>>>
>>>> But:
>>>>
>>>>    (1) That's UML 2.2 not 2.1.2.   I don't see 2.1.2 on their  
>>>> site =20=
>>
>>>> any
>>>> more.
>>>
>>> I simply replaced "2.2" by "2.1.2" in the above URL and received the
>>> corresponding website for UML 2.1.2. So we now have:
>>>
>>>     UML: <http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/>
>>>
>>>     MOF: <http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/>
>>>
>>>>    	I have no idea if this matters.
>>>>
>>>>    (2) We were linking to a PDF before; maybe there was a reason  
>>>> for
>>>>        that?  I don't know.  Their site does have more recent URLs.
>>>
>>> On the web pages cited above, there are links to the PDFs (fixme:  
>>> =20
>>> are these
>>> the original ones?):
>>>
>>>     UML: formal/2007-11-04 | Infrastructure specification | PDF  =09
>>>          <http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1.2/Infrastructure/PDF>
>>>
>>>     MOF: formal/2006-01-01 | MOF Core specification | PDF
>>>          <http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/2.0/PDF>
>>>
>>>> I'm vaguely inclined to just take out the URLs.  If OMG can't  
>>>> keep =20=
>>
>>>> their
>>>> documents on the web for two years, why link to them.  :-) In  
>>>> fact, I
>>>> guess that's what I'll do, unless someone speaks up, arguing =20
>>>> confidently
>>>> for some particular URLs to use here.
>>>
>>> I agree that we should go with the URLs of the new web pages, and  
>>> =20
>>> not with
>>> the PDFs anymore, since the latter documents are easily available  
>>> =20
>>> from the
>>> web pages.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>       -- Sandro
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> --
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