The Long Slow Death of Uml
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In other words, it becomes a problem instead of a solution.
If you dealt with all that you could possibly bootstrap an implementation of UML 2 on a simple core, but I think the UML vendors who backed the specification went out of their way to make this difficult because the last thing they'd want is for there to be a simple implementation of it.