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Key: MOF24-58
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Legacy Issue Number: 19198
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Status: closed
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Source: cebe IT & KM ( Mr. Claude Baudoin)
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Summary:
The document, which is about a mapping of MOF to XMI, does not define the initialisms MOF or XMI anywhere in the documents, either in Chapter 1 (Scope) or in a glossary, which does not exist in this document.
Chapter 1 starts with "XMI is a widely used interchange format..." and ends with "MOF is the foundation technology for describing metamodels..." but there is no mention of what the terms actually stand for, a significant omission in a formal document.
One may also question the use of "MOF 2 XMI" in the title. While "MOF2XMI" may be a common way to create a meta-abbreviation for a relationship between two concepts denoted by abbreviations, there is little justification to eschew the grammatically correct "MOF-to-XMI Mapping" (with hyphens or spaces) in the document title. Using the numeral "2" is actually ambiguous – does it mean "to" or does it refer to a version 2 of MOF?
Overall, this issue is more about casual editing than about correctness, but I believe it makes the specification weaker, editorially, than the usual OMG standard of documentation.
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Reported: MOF 2.4.1 — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:00 GMT
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Disposition: Resolved — MOF 2.4.2
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Disposition Summary:
Make the change as suggested
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Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:16 GMT