Metadata

Defines the collection of offline metadata contaiers associated with this Biml project These containers can be used to store query and table column type information which can then be used to perform builds without needing to connect to the live data sources.

Permitted Collection Child Definitions

Child	API Type	Description
<MetadataInstance />	AstMetadataInstanceNode	Metadata instance objects include all of the metadata specifications for a given metadata model. Note that there may be many metadata instance objects for each metadata model. The metadata model specifies the structure and rules for a collection of metadata. The metadata instance specifies the actual metadata within that model.
<MetadataModel />	AstMetadataModelNode	A metadata model defines all configuration necessary for an end-user to specify and validate metadata that will be used by downstream BimlScripts to automatically generate assets.
<OfflineSchema />	AstOfflineSchemaNode	The AstOfflineSchemaNode stores all information necessary to build a package that targets a specific data source without having to connect to the data source at build time. It is essentially a cache of offline schema items, each containing column type information for a table or query result set.