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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am not sure want you’re meaning
the “feature”, is it another Class? I could not open your
transformation model and would you please send its xme file to me?</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Feng</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Arda Göknil<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 03, 2006
2:00 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> great-users<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [great-users]
negative application condition</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I set the pattern cardinalities of the connection
element to "0" but it negates the element not the association. I am sending
my example. I wnat to define a pattern that defines a Class A which aggregates
Class B and a feature but Class B should not have the feature of Class A.
When I set the pattern cardinality of the Connection element between the Class
B and the feature, it negates the feature, not the connection between them.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Arda<br>
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<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Aditya Agrawal
<aditya.agrawal@gmail.com></span></i></b> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Arda,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In your pattern
specification you can change the “pattern cardinality” attribute
even on the simple association between B and C. By simple association I mean an
association without a class. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can click in the
line, change the attribute called “pattern cardinality to ‘0’
or ‘-1’ “ </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I hope this helps.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Adi</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Arda Göknil<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 02, 2006
9:15 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> A list for GReAT users to
share bugs, fixes an d ideas<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [great-users]
negative application condition</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I could not write a good example. I mean, the meta
association. I imagine the A, B and C classes are the meta classes and
the association between them are the meta association, there is not a meta
class named Association. The setting the pattern cardinality to "-1"
is true if there is a Association entity in the meta class.<br>
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<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Aditya Agrawal
<aditya.agrawal@gmail.com></span></i></b> wrote: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Arda,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As far as I remember you can
set the pattern cardinality on the association between B and C to be
“-1” instead of setting it on B. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I don’t know if
things have changed in the recent past but earlier the value for negative
condition used to be “0” not “-1”.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Could Attila or Feng please
comment to this?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Adi</span></font></p>
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great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Arda Göknil<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 02, 2006
5:14 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
great-users@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [great-users] negative
application condition</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have a question about the negative application
condition in GREAT. In the user manual, it is said that if you set the pattern
cardinality to "-1", you negate that element. but I want to negate the
element for only one association.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>For example, in my pattern I have three classes:
classA, classB and classC. ClassA has a relation with ClassB and ClassC but I
do not want ClassB to have a relation with ClassC. I want to negate ClassC for
the association between ClassB and ClassC. But in my pattern if I set the
pattern cardinality to -1, I can not show the whole pattern in one rule. How is
it possible?</span></font></p>
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