Data validation rules for acord documents
US7747945B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 22, 2005 |
| Grant date | Jun 29, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 31, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q40/08
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A validation system is provided for validating the general structure of XML documents, for example ACORD documents, with a schema validation engine and a schema, for example an ACORD schema. A rules profile, containing a carrier's rules for ACORD documents, is set up and stored in storage. A rules engine further validates a received ACORD document with the rules contained in the rules profile. For efficient coding, the rules engine uses a combination of a scripting language (Groovy—which is the standard scripting language for Java) and dot notation to describe exactly how the levels of the ACORD document are to be traversed, so that a single expression (that looks like a long variable name) is used to directly access the data in the document. A programmer simply writes a single long variable name that specifies exactly the data needed and makes that data available to use during validation.
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