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  1. OMG Issue

SYSML16 — BNF definitions have literals/terminals in italics, which seems to imply that the occurrences of these strings should be in italics, but they are not.

  • Key: SYSML16-199
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Change Vision ( Michael Chonoles)
  • Summary:

    This is probably occurs in many cases, but as an example, see page 40 section 8.3.

    <param -prop> ::= ‘ordered’ | ‘unordered’ | ‘unique’ | ‘nonunique’ | ‘seq’ | ‘sequence’

    This statement states the the literal "ordered" (and the rest of the list) should be in italics when used on diagrams throughout the spec It is not

  • Reported: SysML 1.4 — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:38 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — SysML 1.6
  • Disposition Summary:

    BNF definitions have literals/terminals in italics, which seems to imply that the occurrences of these strings should be in italics, but they are not.

    Per UML specification formatting conventions all BNF non-terminal symbols must be in italics. This means that terminals should not be in italics.

  • Updated: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 18:17 GMT