Generally, specific capacitance is declared in the biophysicalProperties section and applies to the whole cell. For example:
<biophysicalProperties id="biophys">
<membraneProperties>
...
<specificCapacitance value="1.0 uF_per_cm2"/>
...
</membraneProperties>
<intracellularProperties>
...
</intracellularProperties>
</biophysicalProperties>
How can I assign a different value of the specific capacitance to different parts of the cell? E.g. one value for the soma and another for the dendrites.
You can assign a different specific capacitance values to different segment groups of the cell as follows:
<specificCapacitance segmentGroup="soma_group" value="1.0 uF_per_cm2"/>
<specificCapacitance segmentGroup="dendrite_group" value="4.0 uF_per_cm2"/>