Attribute maps have the form
where A is the name of an attribute of class C in the source theory and A' is an attribute of the image class of C under the view.
The mapping of messages is expressed with syntax
where M is a message identifier or a message identifier together with its arity and value sort. As for operators, a message map in which explicit arity and coarity are given affects the entire family of subsort-overloaded message declarations associated with the declaration of the given message.