Hi, XMI is a subset of XML with some more well-defined behavior. I wrote a tool that can process XML files exhibiting certain XMI properties. the repo is here: https://github.com/peteruhnak/xmi-analyzer I don't know if Usman had chance to work with it in practice, but if Synectique has any feedback or feature requests then let me know. You are right that if you have XML Schema (or model-compliant XMI), then processing the XML can be fully automated. Unfortunately implementing full support for that is quite a lot of work, that's why my xmi-analyzer takes shortcuts. I suggest you give it a try, or send me an example of your XML file and maybe we can improve it. XSD is wanted, but nowhere in sight, maybe Monty (current mastermind behind XML-Parser) may have an idea of the complexity of it? Peter On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 05:37:32PM +0100, Serge Stinckwich wrote:

Hi Serge, Peter etal, I believe you are looking for an X/O mapper. This is indeed something that is dearly missing in Moose, and indeed, the main reason we do not have something like this is that we do not have an XSD parser. Here is a paper that describes the X/O space: Revealing the X/O impedance mismatch Ralf Laemmel and Erik Meijer http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.105.1550&rep=r… Here is a presentation that might be relevant: http://www.slideshare.net/rlaemmel/xml-data-binding In Java, a prominent X/O mapper is JAXB: https://jaxb.java.net Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "The coherence of a trip is given by the clearness of the goal."

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Peter Uhnak &lt;i.uhnak(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi Peter, Great to hear of this. A CIM importer was a missing part from my Masters project a few years ago on the IEC61970 Common Information Model [1]. This has about 800 classes and 800 relationships between them is maintained as a UML diagram using Enterprise Architect, from which the IEC standard is generated. EA can export CIM, but at the time I could not find such an importer and had to hack my own import process from the raw EA file. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_(electricity) I downloaded the latest CIM.xmi file to try it, and I get a RBParser syntax error... thecustomprofile:Compound ^ <RED>Variable or expression expected</RED> -> thecustomprofile:Compound where the <RED> line is error inserted in red coloured text. The immediate problem being the colon in the identifier. I tracked this down as coming from the use of a namespace like this... <xmi:XMI xmi:version="2.1" xmlns:uml="http://schema.omg.org/spec/UML/2.1" xmlns:xmi="http://schema.omg.org/spec/XMI/2.1" xmlns:thecustomprofile="http://www.sparxsystems.com/profiles/thecustom… xmlns:EAUML="http://www.sparxsystems.com/profiles/EAUML/1.0"> .... <thecustomprofile:Compound base_Class="EAID_1BEA10DB_2F71_467b_82A6_6C453C5657A5"/> How can I work around this? Now "thecustomprofile" is Enterprise Architect related (i.e. the editing tool) and *nothing* to do with the domain, so I guess it could be thrown away. I notice down the stack that XLMElement has variables... name ==> thecustomprofile:Compound localName ==> Compound so in XACLassStructureGenerator>>processElement: I changed "self ensureAttributeWithAccessor: anElement name..." to "self ensureAttributeWithAccessor: anElement localName..." and it seems to have got further. I'm now looking at the next bump in the road. cheers -ben

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Peter Uhnak &lt;i.uhnak(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I didn't have a chance to test it yet; I was busy with other projects. But now the deadline is approaching for it so I'll have to have a look on it this week. I''ll let you know.