Scope: Model, Metamodel

This property specified the name of the model element regardless whether an instance or a metaclass. It is worth noting that this property corresponds to the name of model elements and should not be confused with an attribute (DAttribute) named name.

When a metaclass (DClass) has an attribute named name, the following rule applies:

Whenever a metaclass attribute named name is assigned a non-empty value, it will be automatically assigned to the name of the model element.

See also value to retrive the value of user-defined entities.