A7.1 - The open XidML Standard - What are the Advantages for Users
- Event
- ETTC 2024 - European Test and Telemetry Conference
2024-06-11 - 2024-06-13
Nuremberg - Chapter
- XidML
- Author(s)
- F. Mertl - Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH, Donauwörth (Germany)
- Pages
- 96 - 99
- DOI
- 10.5162/ETTC2024/A7.1
- ISBN
- 978-3-910600-02-7
- Price
- free
Abstract
XidML is the “eXtensible Instrumentation Definition Markup Language”. It is an XML-based, open and vendor-neutral standard to describe any type of FTI (Flight Test Instrumentation) configuration. XidML aims to store and exchange all information about how data are acquired, processed and packaged for transmission. XdefML is part of the XidML standard. As for XidML, the XdefML schema is open, vendor-neutral. It is designed to describe all properties, specifications and parameter of an equipment. It is often called “electronic datasheet” and so it does e. g. not describe the actual value of a specific setting, but the limits of it. XdefML can be adopted solely, it does not rely on XidML. User can take benefit of just implementing XdefML in their toolchain to having a standardized interface to describe FTI equipment. The available schemata for XidML and XdefML allows the creation, parsing, verification and validation of XidML and XdefML files.