Querying UML/XML Design Information

In this paper we deal with the problem of querying, navigating and exchanging UML design artefacts, including components interfaces, conceptual schemas and the like. Our approach relies on a hierarchy of XML-based descriptors for UML components, representing both functional and non-functional features of artefacts. After presenting a “query-friendly” DTD for such descriptors, the paper illustrates issues related to querying and browsing design repositories. We show how our approach can also address connection-oriented services, such as HTTP-based Web sites.

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