Annex A. Explanations on used table formats

Note: This annex shall be included in each SMT document (see section [general-5]) and is included here for illustration.

General

The tables used in this document try to outline information as concisely as possible. They do not convey all information on Submodels and SubmodelElements. For this purpose, the definitive definitions are given by a separate file in form of an AASX file of the SMT and its elements.

Tables on Submodels and SubmodelElements

For clarity and brevity, a set of rules is used for the tables for describing Submodels and SubmodelElements.

  • The tables follow in principle the same conventions as in [5].

  • The table heads abbreviate 'cardinality' with 'card'.

  • The tables often place two information elements in different rows of the same table cell. In this case, the first information is marked out by sharp brackets [] form the second information. A special case are the semanticIds, which are marked out by the format: (type)(local[1])[idType]value.

  • The types of SubmodelElements are abbreviated (among others):

Table 1. Abbreviations of SubmodelElements
SME type SubmodelElement type

Blob

Blob

Cap

Capability

Ent

Entity

Evt

Event

File

File

MLP

MultiLanguageProperty

Opr

Operation

Prop

Property

Range

Range

Ref

ReferenceElement

Rel

RelationshipElement

RelA

AnnotatedRelationshipElement

SMC

SubmodelElementCollection

SML

SubmodelElementList

  • If an idShort ends with '_00_', this indicates a suffix of the respective length (here: 2) of decimal digits, in order to make the idShort unique. A different idShort might be chosen, as long as it is unique in the parent’s context.

  • The Keys of semanticId in the main section feature only idType and value, such as: [IRI]https://admin-shell.io/vdi/2770/1/0/DocumentId/Id, as described in the serialization of the AAS meta model. The attributes "type" and "local" (typically "ConceptDescription" and "(local)" or "GlobalReference" and (no-local)") need to be set accordingly; see [6].

  • If a table does not contain a column with "parent" heading, all represented attributes share the same parent. This parent is denoted in the head of the table.

  • Multi-language strings are represented by the text value, followed by '@'-character and the ISO 639 language code: example@EN.

  • The [valueType] is only given for Properties.

1. "Attribute "local" was removed in V3.0RC01 [6]"