Custom Annotations: Handling Meta-Information in Modelica

Kurzfassung

Annotations and attributes form an important part of the Modelica language. They are used to include various meta-information such as documentation, external C-code, compilation hints, etc. Given the increasingly wide field of potential applications the set of useful annotations becomes too large to be included in the language specification. Hence we present a proposal how a Modelica modeler may define his own annotations and how such custom annotations can be organized within Modelica libraries. In the long term, the goal is to move the definition of standardized annotation, as well as of attributes, from the Modelica specification to a standard library.