Issue 14959: UML has no way of distinguishing Notes from Comments (uml2-rtf)
Source: Adaptive (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett(at)adaptive.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
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Summary: Though it is common in tools to provide a way of adding notes to diagrams that are not serialized as part of the model XMI, this is nowhere documented in the UML specification. Nor is there any notational means of distinguishing the 2 (since the dashed line attaching Comments to Elements is optional). 


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January 12, 2010: received issue
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ubject: Issues with UML 2.3 Superstructure discovered by Model Interoperability Working Group
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:06:36 -0800
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From: "Pete Rivett" <pete.rivett@adaptive.com>
To: <issues@omg.org>, "Steve Cook" <Steve.Cook@microsoft.com>
1.      UML has no way of distinguishing Notes from Comments

Though it is common in tools to provide a way of adding notes to diagrams that are not serialized as part of the model XMI, this is nowhere documented in the UML specification. Nor is there any notational means of distinguishing the 2 (since the dashed line attaching Comments to Elements is optional).