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Webel Parsing Analysis: An "index" Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) showing a collection of Snippets may optionally (but need not always) show the /member tagged value of each Snippet.

Webel Parsing Analysis for SysML: Track and display alternative names, human friendly names, organisation-specific names, and identifiers using tagged values for a custom stereotype «pa:term» (adapt or extend as required).

Webel Parsing Analysis: Formally, if «pa:implied» has been applied to indicate an implied elicited Element, the 'snippet' tagged value should bet set using at least one Snippet that implies it. (Note, the Snippet should have identical 'name' and 'body'.)

Webel Parsing Analysis: If you have a unique URL for a domain source «document» you MAY additionally set it as an external hyperlink in the MagicDraw/Cameo tool (as well as setting it as the unique 'url' tagged value that acts as the '/uri').

Webel Parsing Analysis: A 'source' Document must have one (only) of a URL or a URN (includes ISBN or other unique identifier) for use as a URI

Webel Parsing Analysis: The name of a Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) may be drawn from a focus Snippet OR may simply indicate a topic of interest to the analysis

Webel Parsing Analysis: Where too many dashed line "anchors" from Snippets to elicited members lead to clutter they may be selectively omitted from a Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) once each member has been collected.

Webel Parsing Analysis: While Associations may be collected as elicited members of a Snippet this can quickly lead to clutter in the /member list display. Often just collecting an end Property as member is sufficient.

Webel Parsing Analysis: While Generalizations may be collected as elicited members of a Snippet this can quickly lead to clutter in the /member list display.

Webel Parsing Analysis: An anonymous Element may be collected as a /member of a Snippet (it is not important whether collected elements list with a clear name under /member, only that they are traceably elicited).

Webel Parsing Analysis: A "focus" Parsing Analysis Diagram (PAD) for one or more Snippets SHOULD always show the /member tagged value of every Snippet.

Webel Parsing Analysis: Acronym: PAD = Parsing Analysis Diagram (may be nearly any diagram type, except those types that must be owned by an elicited model element)

Webel Parsing Analysis: As StateMachine Diagrams are always owned by an element that is not eventually under the Source Input Zone they should not be used as «pa» diagrams. Elicit States instead via the /member section of the specification dialog.

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.

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 absolute basics of the process (SysMLv1.x form)

Webel Parsing Analysis for SysML: Requirements for the Parsing Analysis Container (a.k.a. Snippet)

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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

TIP: If you use the name '0-source' instead of 'source' for the top-level Package/Model for containing Parsing Analysis elements it will list nicely at the top of the containment tree.

Webel Parsing Analysis (with strict traceability of all elicited model elements) can be used side-by-side with "freestyle" modelling with incremental benefit the more it is used.

The Webel Parsing Analysis recipe promotes a clearly scoped modelling workflow.

Even relatively informal elicitation of model elements using the SysML ElementGroup and a Parsing Analysis approach is extremely powerful.

Translating authoritative technical documents written in “natural” engineering language (snippet-by-snippet) into Webel Parsing Analysis diagrams creates consistent underlying systems models and can bridge easily to existing methodologies.

Humans work well with natural language: Many stakeholders – including those who are not necessarily familiar with UML or SysML modelling symbols and diagrams - benefit enormously from having plain text in diagrams side-by-side with graphics.

Webel Parsing Analysis is a "meta-process" that can be applied to general domain source documents to elicit Requirements (and related model elements) or to a Requirements Specification itself as a special case of a domain source document!

Not even the most experienced requirements engineers can easily state requirements perfectly in consistent requirements-friendly language first shot; requirements and constraints are often buried in the natural text of domain source documents.

SysMLv1.x: An ElementGroup in the model tree browser of MagicDraw/Cameo

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Webel Parsing Analysis: A Snippet (keyword «snippet») MUST always have exactly one domain 'source' Document (keyword «document»).

Webel Parsing Analysis: A custom Document stereotype (keyword «document») extends the UML standard profile Document that extends Artifact (which is NOT in the UML4SysML intersection). Such a Document may act as the 'source' of a «snippet».

Webel Parsing Analysis: Create a top-level 'source' or '0-source' Package/Model SEPARATE from your project model. All source «document» elements and «snippet» extracts and «pa» diagrams MUST be ultimately owned by that top-level Package/Model as ancestor!

Webel «pa» Parsing Analysis Diagrams (PADs) are "scratchpads" used to elicit model elements traceably from text Snippets (extracts from source Documents). While BDDs are a good initial choice, most types of SysML diagram can be used as a «pa» diagram.

Webel Parsing Analysis: If you wish to show a «snippet» comment symbol (with its body text) in a presentation diagram (that is NOT a «pa» diagram) remove the '/member' tagged value from display so the only visible tagged value is 'source'.

Webel Parsing Analysis «pa» diagrams are NOT intended as final presentation diagrams! They serve merely to traceably elicit model elements, which may then be shown in other (typically much tidier) presentation diagrams elsewhere.

SysMLv1.x: Customizing the ElementGroup extensions for the Webel Parsing Analysis recipe (simplified)

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Webel Parsing Analysis: typically the quoted extract text (body) of a «snippet» is a short phrase, a sentence, or a couple of short sentences (but not dozens of sentences).

SysMLv1.x: Extending the ElementGroup for the Webel Parsing Analysis recipe (a quick look)

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SysMLv1.x: An ElementGroup used for basic Parsing Analysis model element elicitation: Example 2

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TRAIL: Webel's ultimate guide to Systems Modeling Language (v1) with MagicDraw/Cameo

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18:01: Logical grouping with the ElementGroup extension of Comment in SysMLv1.x

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SysML Block Definition Diagram (BDD)

In Webel Parsing Analysis if you want to track elicited model elements that have not been explicitly mentioned in source text you can introduce Element-level custom tracking Stereotypes with the keywords «pa:implied» or «pa:assumed».

SysMLv1.x: An ElementGroup used for basic Parsing Analysis model element elicitation: Example 1

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Trace used for model element elicitation - callout style

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MOST: UML: Arm

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[ARCHIVAL] Gallery: A UML Parsing Analysis of an analysis of image formation in the MOST radiotelescope (from 2005)

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[ARCHIVAL] Gallery: A UML Parsing Analysis of an analysis of image formation in the MOST radiotelescope (from 2005)

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MOST: UML: Feed

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MOST: UML: Circularly polarised ring Antenna

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