2.3 SemanticModel

The SemanticModel element specifies all of the entities, attributes, and roles of a semantic model. This element is the top-level root node structure of the semantic model of data.

The following are the attributes and child elements of the SemanticModel element.

The following is the XML Schema definition of the SemanticModel element.           

 <xsd:element name="SemanticModel">
   <xsd:complexType>
     <xsd:all>
       <xsd:element name="Description" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element name="Version" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element name="Culture" type="xsd:language" minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element name="Entities" type="EntitiesType" minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element name="Perspectives" type="PerspectivesType" minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element name="CustomProperties" type="CustomPropertiesType" 
                    minOccurs="0" />
       <xsd:element ref="dsv:DataSourceView" minOccurs="0" />
     </xsd:all>
     <xsd:attribute name="ID" type="xsd:QName" use="required" />
   </xsd:complexType>
   <xsd:unique name="ID">
     <xsd:selector xpath=".|.//*" />
     <xsd:field xpath="@ID" />
   </xsd:unique>
 </xsd:element>