OK - I think my point has been misunderstood. A risk of writing a
hasty response on a Friday afternoon. I am NOT arguing for the
entirety of DC to be replaced by the use of UML. Rather, I believe
that the relation element should be re-evaluated in the context of
UML.
Anthony
PS If I was to be radical I would be suggesting that DC as a whole
should be re-conceptualised with documents as active objects and
metadata "elements" as methods that can be invoked by sending
messages to those objects. But thats just my private eccentricity and
you are entitled to ignore me.
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