SysMLv2: On the v2 Comment extension of the v2 AnnotatingElement as a candidate Parsing Analysis Container

Whereas in SysML1.x the  Webel Parsing Analysis recipe for SysML^® used the SysML ElementGroup (extended as the Webel Snippet) as a parsing container, the plan for SysMLv2 is currently to use the SysMLv2 Comment, which extends the new v2 AnnotatingElement.

The following requirements appear to be satisfied:

• Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol of a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be usable on every possible diagram type
• Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be text-friendly and evocative of quoting a domain source text extract
• Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for the relationship between a Parsing Analysis Container and elicited model elements SHOULD be a dashed line (like the anchor/handle line used with a UML Comment)
• Webel Parsing Analysis: It MUST be possible to collect elicited members of a Parsing Analysis Container graphically in diagrams using relationship-like path drawing (not just via a specification dialog or other indirect modelling means)
• Webel Parsing Analysis: It SHOULD be possible to relate one Parsing Analysis Container to another and stereotype that relationship as an RDF/OWL-like semantic triple
• Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be able to OPTIONALLY display a list of names of elicited model elements (a.k.a. members)
• Webel Parsing Analysis: The symbol for a Parsing Analysis Container MUST be able to indicate the unique domain source document from which its analysed text extract was quoted.

It remains to be determined whether this is satisfied by the v2 AnnotatingElement and/or Comment:

• Webel Parsing Analysis: A Parsing Analysis Container MAY own other child Parsing Analysis Containers

The following requirement is not directly met, but can be satisfied through custom validation rule restrictions on a customised Snippet extension of the v2 Comment:

• Webel Parsing Analysis: A Parsing Analysis Container MAY collect any other Element type as a member EXCEPT for another Parsing Analysis Container

The following requirement is not directly met, but might be satisfied through restrictions on a customised Snippet extension of the v2 Comment (and can at least be respected by disciplined modelling practices and by reporting on custom validation rules in tools):

• Webel Parsing Analysis: A Parsing Analysis Container MUST NOT be able to own the Elements it elicits

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List of Webel Parsing Analysis requirements