Developer's Guide


Glossary

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Definition
A definition is one of two types of documents supported by SML-IF. A definition document is used to describe the structure and constraints of the model.

Domain model
The root of an SML-IF document. Contains a set of definition an instance documents.

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Instance
An instance is one of two types of documents supported by SML-IF. An instance document describes a model entity.

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SML
Service Modeling Language (SML) is an XML-based specification that is used to model complex IT resources, services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies and best practices. An SML model defines a consistent way for computer networks, applications, servers and other IT resources are described or modeled to assist businesses to manage their services that are built on these. The SML specification leverages Schematron and unique XML Schema extensions to implement these models.

SML-IF
Service Modeling Language - Interchange Format (SML-IF) defines an implementation-neutral interchange format that preserves the content and interrelationships among documents.

SML repository
In the SML tooling, this is a flat-file based directory structure. Each file in the structure contains an SML document. The Import operation creates SML document files based on the top level resources found in an input SML-IF document.

SML validation
Validating an SML model in accordance with the SML specification.

SML-IF validation
Validating an SML-IF document in accordance with the SML-Interchange Format specification.


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