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<font face="monospace">[Writing from home for ANSOT]<br>
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Hi Peter, Jens-Uwe and NIAC,<br>
<br>
I hope to attend the NIAC 2007. <br>
Will make formal application <br>
tomorrow when on site at ANSTO.<br>
<br>
I will also send my mini-agenda for changes required to the Meta-DTD
templates <br>
to admit automatic translation to an XMI Schema (via my Java NeXusBeans)<br>
which principle I have now demonstrated for ANSTO, and wish to now show
you.<br>
<br>
To make it work properly there need to be changes to the templates,<br>
especially concerning type statements (like NX_INT|NX_FLOAT[i,j,?k.?l])<br>
and embedded cryptic specifications and lack of extensible enum support.<br>
<br>
I have performed a huge body of very useful work on this over the year,<br>
work which truly solves many problems with the NeXus format forever,<br>
so I hope you are able to make time for a decent presentation by me.<br>
<br>
I also wish to present </font><font face="monospace">_free_</font><font
face="monospace"> XML Schema and </font><font face="monospace">_free_
</font><font face="monospace">UML graohical <br>
engineering tools applied to NeXusBeans, as well as the powerful
professional<br>
Magicdraw UML solution, i.e. I am presenting a complete kit for NeXus.<br>
<br>
I suggest therefore two separate yet related presentations and
discussions:<br>
<br>
- </font><font face="monospace">Java NeXusBeans </font><font
face="monospace">and an XML Schema for NeXus: making NeXus automation
friendly.<br>
<br>
- XML Schema tools and UML tools for NeXus<br>
<br>
Note that the Java solution does NOT exclude others, and in fact <br>
I am working on how to generate to other languages, too.<br>
Java is the bridge to XML Schema AND other languages.<br>
<br>
More tomorrow from on site,<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<br>
Darren Kelly (for ANSTO)<br>
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