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UML25 — Clarification of use of BNF for textual notations

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  • Key: UML25-538
  • Legacy Issue Number: 18802
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Model Driven Solutions ( Mr. Ed Seidewitz)
  • Summary:

    In a number of places, the UML specification uses BNF to specify textual notations. However, as for all UML surface syntax, UML textual notations are generally for presentation. There is no requirement that such notations be unambiguously parsable – for example, a modeler may use arbitrary characters like “/” and “:” in a property name, even though these are used as special punctuation in the BNF for property textual notation. This can be confusing to some readers, since BNF is commonly used to specify parsable programming language text. Therefore, it may be worth providing a general clarification of this up front, perhaps in Clause 6 of the specification.
  • Reported: UML 2.5b1 — Tue, 9 Jul 2013 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — UML 2.5
  • Disposition Summary:

    Make such a clarification in 6.4.1
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:59 GMT