Hi, I have a general question / problem to solve here, and thought I'd post it to the group, and see if anyone has any pointers / ideas.
We have a global specifications team that creates product specifications for the products this company sells. Some of these specs are created in UML using EA...a lot of the rest may be just general text, drawings, etc.
Currently they use Framemaker as the major tool to generate the specs.
We want to have a central repository for all specification material, and the format to store it in should be XML. This will likely be an XML database.
For EA then, we can export the UML as XMI and also store this in the XML database.
I'm not really familiar with FrameMaker or its capabilities, but I am to understand that one can use plugins to generate PDFs with variable content by pointing it to such a database.
I'm not sure how it would or would not deal with the XMI portion. I'm guessing that some XSLT could be written to transform the XML into whatever Framemaker expects?
Has anyone had extensive experience with these technologies, and could provide some commentary? Is anyone doing something similar?
There is the option to use EA for all specification material, but this is not feasible. EA generates decent UML-driven documents, but the UI is not suitable for all of the spec content needed here. Therefore, we'll only use it for the UML-driven content of the specifications.
Regards,
Davis
