The Electronic AIP (eAIP) Specification developed by EUROCONTROL provides a standard way to:
publish the content of an AIP (including Amendments (AMDT), Supplements (SUP) and Circulars (AIC)) in a structured electronic format;
visualise the content of an AIP on a computer screen, using Web technology.
This documentation accompanies the eAIP Core Toolbox and contains information for eAIP system developers and implementers regarding Extensible Markup Language (XML) to Hyper-Text Mark-up Language (HTML) conversion, checking the validity of the eAIP, eAIP directory structures, the publication process, MakeAIP-core, creating a new eAIP and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) stylesheet documentation.
Many parts of this manual refer to the "MakeAIP-core" provided by EUROCONTROL. However, the MakeAIP-core tool provided by EUROCONTROL shall be considered as a proof of concept only. No effort was spent on fine-tuning the tool for better performance. There was no formal validation (software audit) of the HTML and Portable Document Format (PDF) output to prove that it corresponds entirely with the content of the XML files. The tool should be revisited, improved and validated before being used in a production environment regarding XML to HTML conversion, checking the validity, eAIP directory structures, the publication process, MakeAIP-core, creating a new eAIP and XSLT stylesheet documentation.