The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation AIXM 5.1 – Business rules AIXM XML Developers' Seminar

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 2 Content What are AIXM Business rules ? Presentation of Schematron Presentation of Eurocontrol AIXM Rules Checker – ARC

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 3 Validation of AIXM 5.1 Syntactic check - Does the data make sense? - Is it compliant with international standards ? - Do I respect recommended practices? - … Semantic check Rules = - Check the compliance of an XML dataset with the XSD grammar - Performed by standard XML parsers (e.g. xerxes, MSXML, XMLSpy, etc.) AIXM 5.1 UML AIXM 5.1 XML Airport features AIXM 5.1 XSD

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 4 Business Rules or Validation Rules ? Definition of “business rules” has been standardized by OMG since Jan 2008 See Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), v1.0 Chapter Annex A.2.3

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 5 Business Rules vs Validation Rules ? OMG specification makes no difference based on validation means It identifies two types of business rules Structural rules Operative rules AIXM 5 will adopt this terminology and identify the following business rules: AIXM Structural rules: the enumerations of values (datatypes) AIXM Operative rules: rules extracted from official documents (ICAO Annexes), minimum data rules, consistency rules, recommended practices, coding rules…

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 6 AIXM Operative Business rules Scope: List of mandatory elements for AIXM 4.5 baseline information A set of rules extracted from ICAO Annexes AIXM GML profile Arinc424-based rules for AIXM 5.0. EAD rules for Obstacle … Work on this subject is underway

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 7 Validation of AIXM 5.1 Syntactic check Semantic check AIXM 5.1 UML AIXM 5.1 XML Airport features AIXM 5.1 XSD Structural Rules Operative Rules How to encode these rules ?

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 8 Schematron Schematron ( is an open language for the validation of XML document… …whose specification is standardized (ISO/IEC 19757) There are 6 basic elements in ISO Schematron: assertion, rule, pattern, schema, namespace and phase.

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 9 Schematron and elements Simple declarative sentences in natural language used to tag assertions positively An AirportHeliport shall have a designator. element Used to group assertions Has a context: if the context matches, the assertions are tested

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 10 Schematron elements Used to group rules having the same objective elements Used to group patterns and elements Root Elements

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 11 Schematron – Example #1 (simple) A424: an AF leg requires a turn direction <assert id="1_1" <rule id="1" -> unique identifier of the rule context="// " ->Defines the conditions of the rule (If attribute SegmentLeg.legTypeARINC= “AF”). ->The rule will be tested if the context is true. <assert id="1_1" -> unique identifier of the assertion -> the logical test to be performed. The “assert” element matches if the logical test returns false (in this case, if the turnDirection is not provided). Translation in AIXM: property turnDirection is required for a SegmentLeg of type AF Simplified Schematron example AF L

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 12 Schematron – Example #2 (less simple) A424: The intercept angle of CI or VI in Loc based Approach transition must be between 10 and 90 degrees. not(./parent::*/parent::*/parent::*/parent::*/parent::*/aixm:codingStandard = 'ARINC_424_18') or or aixm:legTypeARINC='VI']) or not(./aixm:type='FINAL' and./parent::*/parent::aixm:InstrumentApproachProcedureTimeSlice[aixm:approachType='LOC_BC' or aixm:approachType='LOC_DME_BC' or aixm:approachType='IGS' or aixm:approachType='ILS' or aixm:approachType='ILS_PRM' or aixm:approachType='LOC' or aixm:approachType='LOC_DME' or aixm:approachType='SDF' or aixm:approachType='LDA' or aixm:approachType='LDA_DME' or aixm:approachType='ILS_DME']) or not(./parent::*/parent::*/following-sibling::*//aixm:theSegmentLeg) or = 'IF'] or = 'AF']) then = 'LEFT']) then 90.0)) <= 90.0 and 90.0)) >= 10.0) else 90.0)) <= 90.0 and 90.0)) >= 10.0)) else <= 90.0 and >= 10.0))

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 13 ARC (AIXM Rules Checker) ARC is a proof-of-concept tool provided by Eurocontrol: Open source Compliant with Schematron standard Based on Java and Web technologies HTML, Javascript and CSS Main features of ARC: Creation of profiles (Example of profiles: AIXM 4.5, AIXM 5.0) Schematron validation of XML data, according to the selected profile Generation and display of a validation report with detected errors

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 14 ARC (AIXM Rules Checker) The result of the validation is an XML Report every item in the XML source data that does not comply with a specific business rule is reported details of the incompliance detected is provided. It is possible to qualify the incompliance in a number of levels (fatal error, error, warning).

AIXM 5.1 – Business rules 15 ARC (AIXM Rules Checker) ARC was improved in 2009 New Java engine to run the Schematron validation New Java extension: Support the XML namespaces ARC can now evaluate xlink:href Perform geographical computations in WGS84