SBVR15 — The use of UML described in the Annex does not represent any known UML tool nor the UML specification

The use of UML described in the Annex does not represent any known UML tool nor the UML specification. The examples are UML-like diagrams presumably created with a drawing tool.

• In Figure C.1 the right hand class is shown with 2 names and an italicized label “also:” – this is not supported.

• Section C.3 and Figure C.2: in UML, Instance diagrams only the class and not the instance name is ever underlined

• Figure 6.3 is not a valid UML diagram if the lower shapes are InstanceSpecifications: they should have a colon after the names which should not be underlined. The use of Dependencies is not valid for class membership.

• Figure 6.4 is not valid – an association may have only one name optionally accompanied by one direction indicator.

• Figure C.7, C.12: In general UML does not include the notion of underline/font within a name: it’s modeled only as a text string.

• Figure C.9 is not valid – one cannot have an association with only one end.

• C.7.1, Figure 14: these 2 renderings are semantically identical in UML and serialized the same in XMI. UML has the ability to render the distinction using a GeneralizationSet with isDisjoint – so why not use that?

• C.15: powertypes should not have a name before the colon in UML, though the property of type “branch type” may

• C.9, Figure C.17: the dashed lien to association diamond is not valid in UML

Clarify that the Diagrams in Clauses 7-21 do not depict UML conventions or semantics

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