8.3.5 Conversion to an internal model

Conversion to an internal model is a support function for parsing the data of the Information Model AML files into the internal representation of the AutomationComponent used by the engineering tool.

An overview of the tasks for conversion to an internal model is below:

• AML parser for reading the content of an AML file;

• Ability to fetch additional AML libraries from links in the AML file if these libraries are not already present in the engineering tool;

• Creating the objects and relationships in the internal model of the engineering tool from the parsed information.