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Document validation enables any document to be validated against sets of rules specified on a per-document basis. The rules are encoded in a rule file that is addressed using the system document dictionary.
Rules apply to document nodes in the XML tree, and optionally, to their children. Built-in rules can be specified in any combination, and specialized rules can be coded in Java and loaded by the engine as required. This chapter discusses how to encode a rules file, how to use the built-in rules, and how to code specialized rules if needed. iWay Software provides a complete set of built-in rules as needed to validate HIPAA documents.
The last section of this document describes how to write rules in Java for special situations.