Issue 15887: Name transformation (mof2xmi-rtf) Source: Adaptive (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett(at)adaptive.com) Nature: Uncategorized Issue Severity: Summary: MOF/UML does not require names of elements in a metamodel to be valid XML names. Therefore the XMI spec should document a transformation to be applied to cope with spaces, punctuation etc to be used for XML element and attribute names. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: December 9, 2010: received issue Discussion: More time is required to develop a reliable transformation algorithm that can handle all possible non-XML characters that can occur in model element names. This goes way beyond just spaces. Disposition: Deferred End of Annotations:===== ubject: XMI RTF issue Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 14:51:46 -0800 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: XMI RTF issue Thread-Index: AcuX86SVRT26E4WIQcKezlfC9yEAGg== From: "Pete Rivett" To: Name transformation MOF/UML does not require names of elements in a metamodel to be valid XML names. Therefore the XMI spec should document a transformation to be applied to cope with spaces, punctuation etc to be used for XML element and attribute names. Pete -- Pete Rivett (pete.rivett@adaptive.com) CTO, Adaptive Inc 65 Enterprise, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 cell: +1 949 338 3794 Follow me on Twitter @rivettp or http://twitter.com/rivettp