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RE: asn06/OWL vs. UML [was: asn06 take 2 (Abstract Syntax as a kind of ontology?)]

From: Gerd Wagner <wagnerg@tu-cottbus.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:11:05 +0100
To: "'Dave Reynolds'" <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: "'Christian de Sainte Marie'" <csma@ilog.fr>, "'Sandro Hawke'" <sandro@w3.org>, <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002601c70e26$e819cea0$1ab2a8c0@informatik.tucottbus.de>

> >> [By the way, how does "list of X" work in UML?]
> > 
> > I don't see for what this would be needed in an abstract syntax?
> 
> In the abstract syntax we do need to identify places where 
> ordering is significant. 

This is expressible in UML with the help of the {ordered} constraint, 
see e.g. the REWERSE R2ML metamodel diagram
http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/R2ML/0.4/metamodel/R2MLv0.4_files/png
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-Gerd
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