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'''Service Modeling Language''' ('''(SML)''') and '''Service Modeling Language Interchange Format''' ('''(SML-IF)''') are a pair of [[XML]]-based specifications created by leading [[information technology]] companies that define a set of [[XML]] instance document extensions for expressing links between elements, a set of [[XML Schema (W3C)|XML Schema]] extensions for constraining those links, and a way to associate [[Schematron]] rules with global element declarations, global complex type definitions, and/or model documents. The SML<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/sml/ Latest draft of the SML specification]</ref> [[specification]] defines model concepts, and the SML-IF<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/sml-if/ Latest draft of the SML-IF specification]</ref> [[specification]] describes a packaging format for exchanging SML-based models.

SML and SML-IF were standardized in a [[W3C]] working group chartered to produce W3C Recommendations for the Service Modeling Language by refining the “Service Modeling Language” (SML) Member Submission,<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/01/ “Service Modeling Language” (SML) Member Submission]</ref> addressing implementation experience and feedback on the specifications. The submission was from an industry group consisting of representatives from BEA Systems, BMC, CA, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. They were published as [[W3C Recommendation]]s on May 12, 2009.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/2009/04/sml-pressrelease.html.en SML and SML-IF Recommendation Press Release]</ref> In the market and in applying by vendors,{{whom}} SML is seen as a successor/replacement for earlier developed standards like [[DCML (markup language)|DCML]] and Microsoft's (in hindsight) proprietary System Definition Model or SDM. See <ref>http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/msdn/architecture/infrastructure/infrastructure_and_business_priorities.ppt Powerpoint relating SDM and DCML</ref> for a historically helpful relation between SDM and DCML, and <ref>http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/060731b.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN Joint press release about SML</ref> for the joint pressrelease announcing SML. In the Microsoft section of it the sequel role to SDM is mentioned.

== Fast Formal Facts about SML ==

The '''Service Modeling Language (SML)''' is a language for building a rich set of constructs for creating and constraining models of complex IT services and systems. SML-based models could include information about configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, [[service level agreement]]s, and so on.

The '''Service Modeling Language (SML)''' is a language for building a rich set of constructs for creating and constraining models of complex IT services and systems. SML-based models could include information about configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, [[service level agreement]]s, and so on.

An SML model is a set of interrelated [[XML]] documents. An SML model could contain information about the parts of an IT service, as well as the constraints that each part must satisfy for the IT service to function properly. Constraints are captured in two ways:

;* [[XML Schema (W3C)|XML Schema]] documents : constrain the structure and content of the XML instance documents in a model. SML uses [[XML Schema (W3C)|XML Schema]] 1.0, but allows later versions as well. SML also defines a set of extensions to [[XML Schema (W3C)|XML Schema]] to constrain references, and identity constraints (key, unique, ...) that apply to sets of documents.

;* Rule documents : constrain the structure and content of documents in a model. SML uses [[Schematron]] and [[XPath]] 1.0 for rules, but allows later versions as well.

Once a model is defined, one of the important operations on the model is to establish its validity. This involves checking whether all model documents satisfy the [[XML Schema (W3C)|XML Schema]] and rule document constraints.

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