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Figure 3 XML schema definition of the OMI file
Many model applications are designed so to user will enter data needed for the model run through the application user interface and subsequently save all this into files or a database. Implementing some code that will create and save the corresponding OMI file when the user hits the save button can be a very useful and simple way to ensure that such models automatically becomes available as OpenMI compliant models and directly can be added to OpenMI configurations e.g. using the OpenMI configuration editor.