All elements

For the purposes of the early examples, a couple of other, deprecated elements are also allowed: XSimulation and XNetwork

Files are included where the Include declaration occurs. The enclosing Lems block is stripped off and the rest of the content included as is.

The name attribute is required. The others default to zero if not present.

The symbol and dimension attributes are required. powTen defaults to zero if not present.

Root element for defining component types. Note that ComponentClass is used for this element in the NeuroML Component definitions. LEMS will handle ComponentClass elements in the same way as ComponentType elements.

Sets the name an dimensionality of a parameter that must be supplied when a component is defined curresponding to the enclosing ComponentType

A parameter that comes from other parameter values in the model rather than being set explicitly. Its value can be supplied either with the 'value' attribute that evaluates within the scope of the definition, or with the 'select' attribute which gives a path to 'primary' version of the parameter. For example, setting select='//MembranePotential[species=channel/species]/reversal' within the appropriate context allows a channel's reversal potential to taken from a single global setting according to its permeant ion, rather than explicitly supplied locally.

A parameter of which the value is a path expression. When a ComponentType declares a PathParameter, a corresponding Component definition should have an attibute with that name whose value is a path expression that evaluates within the instance tree of the built model. This is used, for example, in the definition of a group component class, where the coresponding component specifies a path over the instance tree which selectesthe items that should go in the group.

A Requirement gives the name and dimension of a quantity (parameter or variable) that should be accessible within the scope of a model component. This is only applicable for elements that can be included as children of other elements, where the scope comprises its own parameters and those in the scope of its enclosing element. Once a requirement has been declared, then the quantity can be used within the Behavior definition of the component. It is the responsibility of an implementation to check that the component is only used in a context in which the requirement is met. A typical example is in defining membrand bound components which require access to the membrane potential but where the variable that holds the potential itself is defined in the top level component.

A quantity that is made available to other component in the simulation. All variables in a Behavior definition are private. If other components need access to them then the definition has to explicitly link them to an exposure defined in the component class

Specifies that a component can have a child of a particular type. The name supplied here can be used in path expressions to access the component. This is useful, for example, where a component can have multiple children of the same type but with different roles, such as the forward and reverse transition rates in a channel.

Specifies that a component can have children of a particular class. The class may refer to an extendedtype, in which case components of any class that extends the specified target class should be valid as child components

A reference to another component. The target component can be accessed with path expressions in the same way as a child component, but can be defined independently

This is used in conjunction with PathParameter elements to specify the target class of selections defined within components operating over the instance tree.

Like a ComponentRef, but resolved relative to the enclosing object so the target must already be in the model. One or the other should be deprecated. The Link element has the same properties as ComponentRef. The Link element just establishes a connection with the target component, but leaves it in its existing place in the hierarchy. Variables in the target component can be accessed via the name of the link element.

An property on an instance of a component. Unlike a Parameter, a Property can very from instance to instance. It should be set with an Assign element within the build specification.

If more than one Behavior definition is supplied, a DefaultBehavior element can be added to point to the one that should be used by default in the absence of other criteria.

Contains the description of the dynamical behavior of the ComponentType. Can also contain instructions on other elements to create when a component of this type is created. Note that Dynamics is used for this element in the NeuroML Component definitions. LEMS will handle Dynamics elements in the same way as Behavior elements.

A quantity that depends algebraically on other quantities in the model. The 'value' field can be set to a mathematical expression, or the select field to a path expression. If the path expression produces multiple matches, then the 'reduce' field says how these are reduced to a single value by taking the sum or product.

Has a variable and a value. The value is the rate of change of the variable.

A kinetic scheme does not itself introduce any new elements or state variables. It is rather a way of connecting quantities in existing components by saying that quantities in the edge elements should be interpreted as transition rates among quantities in the node elements.

The children attribute should point to a children declaration in the parent element. The variable field specifies the variable in the state elements that is governed by the scheme.

Has 'variable' and 'value' fields

Event handler block

These two attributes are paths to parameters. Values are only supplied for the parameters when a component is built using the containing type. The 'src' attribute should point to another element that contains Show or Record definitions. The 'timeScale' attribute is optional, and will be superseded if this element points to a Show element that sets a new time scale, but before pointing to a Record element at least one element in the display chain must have set the time scale.

The run element provides a way to make a model runnable. It should point to the parameters that set the step size etc. The target parameters have to be dimensionally consistent.

Fixes the value of a parameter in the parent class, so that it does not have to be supplied separately in component definitions.

A constant quantity: like a parameter for which the value is supplied in the class definition itself rather than when a component is defined.

Specifies that a component can accept attached components of a particular class. Attached components can be added at build time dependent on other events. For scoping and access purposes they are like child components. The cannonical use of attachments is in adding synapses to a cell when a network connection is made.

A port on a component that can send or receive events, depending on the direction speicfied.

Duplicates some functionality of PathParameter - the two should be merged.

Holds textual information that does not change the model but is needed for other purposes such as labelling graphs.

Specifies that instances of components based on this class can containe a named collection of other instances. This provides for containers for oprating on groups of instances with path and filter expressions defined in components to operate over the instance tree.

Defines a named collection of paris of instances, similar to the Collection element.