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= System Structure and Parameterization (SSP)

The System Structure and Parameterization (SSP) standard is a free standard that defines a tool-independent format for the description, packaging and exchange of system structures and their parameterization. It is currently supported by https://ssp-standard.org/tools/[8] tools and maintained as a https://modelica.org/projects[Modelica Association Project].

https://ssp-standard.org/[Releases] and the https://ssp-standard.org/docs/main/[latest development version] of the specification are available on the https://ssp-standard.org/[SSP website].

== Repository Structure

• docs -- sources of the specification document
• schema -- XML schemas of the specified file formats
• <<CONTRIBUTING.adoc#,CONTRIBUTING.adoc>> -- info on contributing to the project and building the specification document
• <<README.adoc#,README.adoc>> -- this document

== Branches

• main -- development of the next release
• support/v{1}.0.x -- maintenance of the 1.0 release

== Copyright and License

XML schemas and documentation copyright (C) 2016 - 2023 the Modelica Association Project SSP. XML schemas released under the https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause[2-Clause BSD License]. Documentation released under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/[Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International].