Rules and Guidelines for Validation Operations
Before you compile a rule specification, validate the rule specification.
Consider the following rules and guidelines when you validate a rule specification:
- •The Analyst tool validates the lowest rule sets in the rule specification first. If the Analyst tool finds an error in a rule set, the Analyst tool stops validation and reports the error.
- •The Analyst tool reports one error at a time. When you repair a validation error, validate the rule specification again.
- • A rule specification can fail validation for the following reasons:
- - A condition or action in a rule statement specifies a data type that differs from the input data type.
- - The rule statements in a rule set generate outputs of different data types.
- - A parent rule set does not read an output from a child rule set.
- - A rule statement is incomplete.
- - A rule set contains an input that the rule statements in the rule set do not use.