How to identify an xml file as BPMN2.0 xml file?

[Manfred K]

Hi there,

Some BPMN modeler are able to export diagrams as an bpmn2.0 xml file.
(Means an xml file which fully correspondents with the BPMN2.0 spezification).

Some (unnamed) BPMN modeler say they can export their BPMN2.0 diagrams into an xml file as BPMN2.0.xml.

But this unfortunately is not really the case.
Well it is XML. But is the exported file compatible with the BPMN2.0 spezification?

There is an online BPMN-Validator
http://www.webratio.com/bpmnValidation/home.do

But this is not a testimony whether it is an BPMN2.0 xml file or not.
Even if 'only' the schema is invalid or not given.

Is there a way for an easy check whether a given xml file is compatible with the BPMN 2.0 spezification.

Are there some links or other helpfully information ?

Thank you for an answer.

Kind regards

Manfred

Sorry, if this posting occurs twice

[David Sanders]

There's a difference between being "compatible" and "fully compliant".  I presume you're asking whether the XML is compatible?

Open the XML and have a look at the some of the tags.  If the root tag is a <Definitions/> element then that means it's using the BPMN2.0 XML format.

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[Manfred K]

Hi David

thank you for your answer.

I meant the compatibility of an possible bpmn-document with the bpmn 2.0 specification.
So that there is no data in the given xml file which does not correspond to the BPMN2.0 specification.

Well, I am starting to understand. :-)

I have examined a BPMN 2.0 xml and I found

<model:definitions
xmlns:dc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC"
xmlns:di="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI"
xmlns:di_1="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI"
xmlns:model="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL"...

which can all be found at http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/
the OMG site which contains the BPMN2.0 specification.

So I hope, I can assume that this xml-file is an BPMN 2.0 file.

Kind regards

Manfred