Author Topic: Exporting from Visio UML to EA - how? (Read 5342 times)

mbc · « **on:** September 22, 2005, 08:55:30 am »

We have a model in Visio Professional, that someone has spent a long time on creating. We would like to continue working on it in EA.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a way to export any usable format from Visio, e.g. XMI.

From what I could read in some other threads, I think it must be possible, but I haven't been able to find out exactly how?

Thanks in advance,
Mikkel

thomaskilian · « **Reply #1 on:** September 22, 2005, 01:50:51 pm »

Does that help?

mbc · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:11:54 am »

Sort of.
I had found something like that, but I was hoping for a solution that didn't require me to build my own plugin. I also found a similar plugin example for Visio 2003.

Amazing, that MS did not provide built-in XMI export. Anyway, nice to know that apparently there isn't any better way around it.

I haven't been able to get this plugin example to work. I found someone with Visual Studio who could build it for me, but the menu item that I think should appear, just isn't there.

If there is someone out there who has actually succeeded in exporting any XMI from Visio (2003), I would like to hear from them.

Best regards,
Mikkel

mbc · « **Reply #3 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:42:24 am »

Hello again,

I don't know exactly what has changed, but today the XMI Export menu item decided to appear in the Add-ons menu. Maybe it's because the sun is shining outdoors.

Now I have run into a new problem: The UML.DTD supplied by Sparx apparently does not fit the XMI exported from Visio. Can anyone help me find a suitable UML.DTD? MS claims that it is downloadable from omg.org, but I can't find it there.

Mikkel

thomaskilian · « **Reply #4 on:** September 23, 2005, 01:58:24 am »

Again not very helpful

mbc · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2005, 02:05:20 am »

From the same discussion:

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Yeah - I spent a number of fruitless hours trying to import (so-called) XMI that Visio had puked up Sad

This is the process I have also started, but I will have to delay it until later, because I have something else, I need to finish today.
I did find one of the DTDs from here, that sort of works:
http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/
but there are still problems.
I will return later, if I get any further.

Mikkel

thomaskilian · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2005, 02:48:18 am »

Good luck. There are obviously people who will be grateful for a solution

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