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January 2010 [Cradle 6.1]

3SL Adopts XML

3SL is pleased to announce that our next Cradle release, Cradle-6.2, will support XML.

  • We have adopted an open and extensible approach to Cradle’s XML support. Specifically:
  • We will publish a schema for the exchange of model-based systems engineering data
  • We will support emerging XML schemas in our domain, particularly RIF
  • We will support XSLT-based transformations of XML data into the 3SL schema

The combination of these capabilities will mean that:

  • Cradle directly supports RIF
  • Cradle directly supports the 3SL schema for full model-based systems engineering
  • Cradle XML data can be transformed into other any other data representation, including other documents based on other XML schemas, using the transformation utilities that we will provide.
  • XML data in other schemas from other applications, databases and tools can be transformed into schemas that Cradle can import directly, including 3SL’s schema for full model-based systems engineering data and RIF for the requirements-related subset of systems engineering data

We will continue to develop and extend these capabilities in future Cradle releases.

These initial capabilities, and their future developments, are a substantial increase in the data exchange facilities between Cradle and other tools and databases. Together with our involvement in the open standards community, this demonstrates 3SL’s long term commitment to vendor-neutral data exchange and storage mechanisms.

3SL was the first tool vendor to support AP233. Now, we are the first vendor to support not only a specific XML schema based format, but to also provide mechanisms that you, the end user, can control to move data in any XML based format into Cradle and to get data out from Cradle into any format.