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General Board / Re: Inferring an XSD from and XML - aka reverse engineering a XML file

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on January 27, 2026, 12:34:33 am »

You can import an XSD, but I don't think I've ever seen the option to import a XML to generate an XSD model.

There are a few other tools (such as XMLSpy) that do that kind of stuff, but it's always going to be guesswork. There are an infinite number of XSD's that match any given XML.

Geert

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General Board / Inferring an XSD from and XML - aka reverse engineering a XML file

« Last post by Modesto Vega on January 27, 2026, 12:22:53 am »

Perhaps I have dreamt or forgotten how to do it. From memory, with previous versions of Sparx EA - i.e., before v16 - it was possible to reverse engineer an XML and get a decent XSD.

With v16 this doesn’t seem to be very straightforward. Importing into the Schema Composer seems to be the only plausible route but CMI is the only option and a reference package is always needed.

What have I forgotten? Did I dreamt it?

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General Board / Connector --> Advanced --> Change Type" not showing full list of connectors.

« Last post by ejafman on January 24, 2026, 05:17:16 am »

Greetings...this may be a simple question for someone.

I'm in a UML Class diagram, and create a "Composition" relation between two classes.
I then right click on the relationship, select "Advanced" -->"Change Type" and my drop down "Select Connector Type is limited to this:
Abstraction
CommunicationPath
Extension
Information Flow
Substitution
Template Binding
Usage

This is on a shared model, in a repository.

If I do the same operation in a Class diagram on a local model, the list includes many more connector types (and includes the one I need, which is "association".

Can someone point me to what may be causing this? Comparing to the two models, I do not see and differences within the preferences (I'm sure there is, just can't see it yet).

This is on 17.0.1704

Thanks in advance...

Eric

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PCS Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Possible to check differences through a web interface?

« Last post by miksko on January 23, 2026, 05:18:55 am »

Just as I suspected. Thanks for answering, Geert.

Mikael

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PCS Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Possible to check differences through a web interface?

« Last post by Geert Bellekens on January 23, 2026, 04:30:43 am »

No, that requires the actual client.

Geert

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PCS Frequently Asked Questions / Possible to check differences through a web interface?

« Last post by miksko on January 22, 2026, 08:36:22 pm »

The Sparx client has tools for letting the user review changes and differences between two versions of a model; for example the current model and a baseline version.
Will someone who doesn't have the client, but just the web interfaces WebEA or ProLaborate, be able to do something similar? And if so, how?

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General Board / Re: MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Enterprise Architect has been released

« Last post by Viking on January 21, 2026, 11:44:10 pm »

This error seems that there was an error between Copilot and GitHub (GH). My add-in never returns an error or requests the Copilot-Vision-Request header. This error maybe relates to Copilot Vision feature, so I cannot help you.

Agreed. It seems more a problem with GitHub and the LLM. I tried several LLMs and one did not throw this exception.

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General Board / Re: MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Enterprise Architect has been released

« Last post by Paolo F Cantoni on January 21, 2026, 02:31:07 pm »

I think the term "composite diagram" is a bit unfortunate, as it has connotations that it probably shouldn't have.

When explaining the concept to EA users, I often use "linked diagram". I explain to them that this works like a hyperlink. It is the diagram that is opened when double-clicking on the element.
For me, it does not have any other meaning, and it only exists to help us humans navigate the model.

Geert

Wot 'e sed!

Paolo

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General Board / Re: MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Enterprise Architect has been released

« Last post by Takeshi K on January 21, 2026, 10:18:05 am »

But Copilot throws an issue:
' Sorry, your request failed. Please try again.
Copilot Request id: 37d72ba4-1757-43e8-becc-6763ef90ff8d
GH Request Id: 647D:3E781C:528352:5B6037:696F8921
Reason: Request Failed: 400 {"error" : {"message": "missing required Copilot-Vision-Request header for Vision requests","code" :""}} '

This error seems that there was an error between Copilot and GitHub (GH). My add-in never returns an error or requests the Copilot-Vision-Request header. This error maybe relates to Copilot Vision feature, so I cannot help you.

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General Board / Re: MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Enterprise Architect has been released

« Last post by Viking on January 21, 2026, 01:44:21 am »

Hi Takeshi, I tested v2.3.11. The mcp identifies the linked diagrams now. Many thanks.

But Copilot throws an issue:
' Sorry, your request failed. Please try again.
Copilot Request id: 37d72ba4-1757-43e8-becc-6763ef90ff8d
GH Request Id: 647D:3E781C:528352:5B6037:696F8921
Reason: Request Failed: 400 {"error" : {"message": "missing required Copilot-Vision-Request header for Vision requests","code" :""}} '

With the older version I also got this issue, but it was gone later. Any ideas?