Fields

Rsml has two types of fields: Properties and Attributes.

Properties

• Property fields are used to define properties for instances.
• They can be assigned either a data type or an attribute.

They can be written as follows:

SomeProperty = ...

Attributes

• Attribute fields are used to store a data type, or another attribute, that can be assigned to multiple properties.
• If a attribute is changed then the properties it is assigned to will update accordingly.
• They propagate downwards which means that rules will inherit attributes from their ancestor(s).
• If multiple attributes of the same name are defined then the most recently defined one takes precedence.

They can be written with a dollar sign prefix as follows:

$MyAttribute = ...