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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Glenn Walker on August 22, 2002, 11:02:14 am

Title: Importing Conceptual Model From PowerDesigner
Post by: Glenn Walker on August 22, 2002, 11:02:14 am

I would like to load a conceptual model from PowerDesigner. PowerDesigner creates an XML representation, but it is not XMI. I would be interested to find out if anyone has been able to import this type of information into EA.

Any pointers to tools or ideas, would be appreciated.

Glenn Walker

Title: Re: Importing Conceptual Model From PowerDesigner
Post by: sparks on August 27, 2002, 05:39:46 am

Hello,

Without looking at the XML that PowerDesigner produces it is a little hard to tell what would be the best method to import this information.  If the structure was similar to XMI then the easiest process would probably be to write some XSL to translate from one structure to another.  However if the two foramts are not similar then it would probably be easier to write a program to either convert the XML to XMI or read the XML and use EA's automation interface to update the model directly.  Hope this information helps.

Paul Mathers