asterix-data

XML description of ASTERIX data format as specified in http://www.eurocontrol.int/services/asterix. Each ASTERIX category and revision is specified in a separate .xml file.

NOTE: This projet is obsolete in favor of https://github.com/zoranbosnjak/asterix-specs. For the existing projects, it is still possible to use these xml definitions, but it is important to note, that the definitions are automatically generated from the upstream asterix-specs repository. Do not edit .xml files directly.

Manual specification update procedure

NOTE: This is normally not necessary. The .xml files are updated periodically from github actions.

export ASTERIX_SPECS_REV=$(./update-specs.py xml --reference)
echo $ASTERIX_SPECS_REV

git rm xml/*
./update-specs.py xml
git add xml

# review changes
git diff --cached

# commit with reference to asterix-specs revision
git commit -m "Sync with asterix-specs #$ASTERIX_SPECS_REV"

Install

• scons utility is used to run validation and installation (similar to make).
• jing application is used to optionally validate xml file against the template.

Data validation

To validate XML (not strictly necessary), use:

scons validate

Installation

To install files to default location /usr/local/share/asterix-data, use:

scons install
# or
sudo scons install

To install files to custom location, use for example

mkdir tmp
scons install --prefix=tmp