UML22 — p. 721: Allow stereotypes to have properties that are typed by metaclasses

SysML extends the use of Profile notation and requires that stereotypes can reference UML metaclasses. In order to satisfy the needs of SysML, the following changes need to be made to the the UML 2.0 Superstructure Profiles chapter. "Convenience documents" in .fm and .pdf formats, which redline the proposed changes to the Profiles chapter, are provided as attachments to this issue submission. (See
UML2-Super-Profiles-ConvenienceDoc-050525.fm and UML2-Super-Profiles-ConvenienceDoc-050525.pdf.)
. Change paragraph 4 to:
"As part of a profile, it is not possible to have an association between two stereotypes or from a metaclass in the reference metamodel to a stereotype, although a unidirectional association from a stereotype to a metaclass, or equivalently typing a stereotype property by a metaclass, is allowed. The effect of new (meta) associations between stereotypes can be achieved in limited ways either by:"

See issue 7756 for disposition