Almost all
UML drawing tools today provide an XMI interface for accessing the
diagrams in text form. So you should be able to get text
representations out. However, that is usually a programmatic
access (i.e., from other software). Whether a particular drawing
tool provides UI options to dump the AMI text to a file depends on
the particular tool vendor.
--
A man is drinking beer on his porch with his wife.
He: I love you.
She: Is that you or the beer talking?
He: It's me talking to the beer.
Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence
-- Schopenhauer
Imagine how much more difficult physics would be if electrons had feelings
-- Richard Feynman
Rene Descartes went into a bar. The bartender asked if he would like a drink.
Descartes said, "I think not," and disappeared.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
-- mwalshe89
Life is an accident of infinitesimal probability.
Thus entropy acts to extinguish it with due dilligence.
Heisenberg, Godel, and Chomsky go in to a bar.
Heisenberg: Clearly this is a joke but how do we tell if is is funny?
Godel: We can't know because we are inside the joke.
Chomsky: Of course it's funny. You are just telling it wrong.
A programmer's wife tells him, "Go to the store and get a loaf of bread.
If they have eggs, get a dozen."
The programmer returns with a dozen loaves of bread.
To do is to be (Descartes).
To be is to do (Sartre).
To be do be do (Sinatra)
-- Kurt Vonnegut
H. S. Lahman
H.la...@verizon.net
website: http://www.hslahman.com/
software blog: http://pathfinderpeople.blogs.com/hslahman/index.html
software book: Model Based Development, Addison-Wesley, 2011
geology book: The Evolution and Utilization of Marine Resources, MIT Press, 1972