Adding Features as XML Elements instead of Attributes in CAS

[Neal Lewis <im...@gmail.com>]

Hello!

I see that in the UIMA reference it's possible to have Primitive Feature
Types as XML Elements instead of Attributes.

http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/references.html#ugr.ref.xmi.primitive_features


Does this become a part of the CAS XMI?  And if so, how does one make the
switch from attributes to elements?  Does it have to be a separate CAS
Consumer, or can make a change in the Type System Descriptor, or even the
Java Code for the Analysis Engine?

Thanks!

Neal

Re: Adding Features as XML Elements instead of Attributes in CAS

[Neal Lewis <im...@gmail.com>]

Thanks! I understand now. I'll look into the deserializing library and just
write to file the way I would like to.



On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Adam Lally <al...@alum.rpi.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Neal Lewis <im...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I see that in the UIMA reference it's possible to have Primitive Feature
> > Types as XML Elements instead of Attributes.
> >
> >
> >
> http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/references.html#ugr.ref.xmi.primitive_features
> >
> >
> > Does this become a part of the CAS XMI?  And if so, how does one make the
> > switch from attributes to elements?  Does it have to be a separate CAS
> > Consumer, or can make a change in the Type System Descriptor, or even the
> > Java Code for the Analysis Engine?
> >
> > Hi,
>
> UIMA's XMI Serializer always writes primitive features as attributes.  The
> deserializer should be able to read either format.  I think the meaning of
> that reference is to define that a valid XMI CAS could represent attributes
> in either way, but it was not meant to say that UIMA has the capability to
> produce it both ways.
>
> -Adam
>

Re: Adding Features as XML Elements instead of Attributes in CAS

[Adam Lally <al...@alum.rpi.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Neal Lewis <im...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I see that in the UIMA reference it's possible to have Primitive Feature
> Types as XML Elements instead of Attributes.
>
>
> http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.4.0/references.html#ugr.ref.xmi.primitive_features
>
>
> Does this become a part of the CAS XMI?  And if so, how does one make the
> switch from attributes to elements?  Does it have to be a separate CAS
> Consumer, or can make a change in the Type System Descriptor, or even the
> Java Code for the Analysis Engine?
>
> Hi,

UIMA's XMI Serializer always writes primitive features as attributes.  The
deserializer should be able to read either format.  I think the meaning of
that reference is to define that a valid XMI CAS could represent attributes
in either way, but it was not meant to say that UIMA has the capability to
produce it both ways.

-Adam