Introduction

The AIXM business rules are executed on AIXM data sets. The data sets may come in AIXM XML format or may be built in memory, by extracting data from a database. An XML file may be represented in memory as an XML Document Object Model (DOM) set of classes. Software that executes the rules on an AIXM data set is likely to use this AIXM DOM model in order to test the data against the rules. In all situations it is assumed that the AIXM data set is represented in accordance to the structure defined by the AIXM XML Schema.

The purpose of this section is to highlight some aspects that might be relevant for the execution of the AIXM business rules on AIXM data sets. This starts with a reminder about the AIXM Temporality Concept, which is critical for correctly understanding the structure of the AIXM XML data sets.

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