BiVeS-CellML

the CellML module of BiVeS

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Read CellML Documents

Parse a CellML Document

The easiest way to parse CellML documents is using the validator. It will validate the file and provides you with the occurred error if the document is not valid. However, if the document is valid you get the CellML model for free:

// create a CellML validator
CellMLValidator validator = new CellMLValidator ();

// is that document valid?
if (!validator.validate (document))
	// if not: print the error (which is an exception)
	System.err.println (validator.getError ());

// get the document
CellMLDocument doc = validator.getDocument ();

You may provide the document as an XML string, a File object pointing to a file on the disk, a URL to a model on the internet, or an already parsed TreeDocument. Please read ModelRetriever to learn how to restrict the access to local/remote files. (see also ParseExample.java)

Extract use the model of a document

The API provides a lot of methods to interact with CellML models. Here is just a small example:

// get model
CellMLModel model = doc.getModel ();

// get all components and a map: `name` -> `component`
HashMap<String, CellMLComponent> components = model.getComponents ();

// get all variables of the component with the name COMPONENT
// also return a map: `name` -> `variable`
HashMap<String, CellMLVariable> variables = components.get ("COMPONENT").getVariables ();

// get the variable with name VAR in component COMPONENT
CellMLVariable var = variables.get ("VAR");

// trace the interface connections back to the root variable
CellMLVariable rootVar = var.getRootVariable ();

// get the encapsulation hierarchy network
CellMLHierarchyNetwork hierarchy = model.getHierarchy ().getHierarchyNetwork ("encapsulation", "");

// get the hierarchy node of component COMPONENT
CellMLHierarchyNode hNode = hierarchy.getNode (components.get ("COMPONENT"));

// get its parent component in terms of encapsulation
CellMLHierarchyNode hNodeParent = hNode.getParent ();
// and its children
List<CellMLHierarchyNode> hNodeKids = hNode.getChildren ();

see also ParseExample.java