[New-ITS] UML datatypes issues

[Grahame Grieve]

ann.wrightson at bt.com wrote:
>> If the model says that the content is "encapsulated data", then the XML
> 
>> should treat it like that, because that's appropriate
> 
> It depends how you link the concepts of "encapsulation" in the model,
> and "encapsulation" in the XML. IMO these are not synonymous, this is a
> concept-mapping decision (conscious or unconscious), and from where I
> stand, mapping model-encapsulation to XML-subtree is a pretty normal
> thing for content that is (or rather if it were a standalone XML
> document would be) well-formed XML. 

so, you wouldn't want a choice here? it would actually be worse to a
allow either xml or base64 content? but since base64 has to be allowed
for non-xml content, how do you stop the use of it for XML content?

I do see this as an xml-centric vs model-centric development issue.

Grahame