Chapter 6 Managing Models

Interchanging Models using the XMI Format

PowerDesigner allows you to interchange Unified Modeling Language (UML) models between different UML tool vendors using the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) standard file format.

XMI combines the benefits of web-based XML standard for defining, validating and sharing document formats on the Web with the benefits of the object-oriented UML. However, the current version of XMI does not support diagrams interchange.

The current version of XMI is 1.1 and PowerDesigner uses the UML 1.3 DTD to generate XMI files.

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