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FBM MetaModel Documentation

Model

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

The Model element is the top-level container for a Fact-Based Model. It aggregates the FBM-specific structures described in subsequent sections of the reference.

Model  
  |--FBMModel  
  |--FBMDiagram

Model element

Section titled “Model element”
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Model xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" XSDVersionNr="1.7">
  <FBMModel ModelId="729bef8f-d78a-4936-a9a2-fe468ca4c7fa" Name="CinemaBookings-SemanticLayerTest" CoreVersionNumber="2.6">
...
  </FBMModel>
  <FBMDiagram>
    <Page Id="a2dbde51-35fe-4ef1-b2d7-f18509a9cf7b" Name="Cinema" Language="ORMModel" IsCoreModelPage="false">
      <ConceptInstance>

Attribute definitions

Section titled “Attribute definitions”
  • XSDVersionNr – Identifies the schema version used to generate the exchange document.

FBMModel element

Section titled “FBMModel element”

Attribute definitions

Section titled “Attribute definitions”
  • ModelId – Unique identifier for the model instance.
  • Name – Display name of the model.
  • CoreVersionNumber – Is the version number of the Core metamodel, if using this FBM Exchange Schema in a 4-Layer architecture with injected metamodels as Core MDAModelElements (Model Driven Architecture Elements).

FBMDiagram element

Section titled “FBMDiagram element”
  • Contains the set of FBM diagrams (Pages) that are used to present the FBM Model diagramatically.

Additional details

Section titled “Additional details”

The XSD definition for the Model and FBMModel elements appears in Appendix A, where the full complex type is documented.