Ok, I tried this and actually this works out quite fine.
To transfer the poses and methods between equivalent models (he to she or so) the following procedure worked for me:
1. Save the models as a2c to disk
2. rename the models to .zip
3. unzip the models to different folders
4. copy the changed/additional folders from the source model to destination model
5. change in the rootfolder of the model the file elementData.xml with an editor.
Here we have to change
a) the child elements: add the missing methods/poses
<child filename="sitting">
b) the missing item elements named
<item criterionClass="edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.crite rion.InternalReferenceKeyedCriterion">methodname</item>
6 save the elementdata.xml
c) Change the element poses accordingly, otherwise the poses will not show up in the properties page (though they will work properly:-)
<property componentClass="edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.Pose" name="poses">
<item criterionClass="edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.crite rion.InternalReferenceKeyedCriterion">sitting</item>
</property>
7. Zip the file and path structure back into a zip file
8. Rename that into a2c and put it into the alice gallery path
Voila, your new model is now a trained person
Next thing to try is, if this works also to structural only partly equivalent models. Perpare for crashes
The Attached file is an POC example. The poses and methods standup/sitdown where originally defined for Mary, a She-Builder model, then copied with the explained method to Karl, a He-Builder model.