RuleBase settings:
Context - This option sets the context within the FactBase, against which XPaths should evaluate. For example, if you are receiving a SOAP message, but know you will only ever be working with the contents of the body section, you could set the context location to the body tag, and then write all your remaining XPaths relative to this. Even if a context point has been set, you can still write XPaths to access the full FactBase by making them absolute, i.e. starting with a
/. The context point will default to a
/to indicate that all XPaths are being evaluated from the root of the FactBase. Return - This option specifies which part of the FactBase should be returned once this controller has finished processing. This XPath must locate an Element Node, and can make use of Variable definitions if required. This value will default to
/to indicate that all the contents of the FactBase should be returned. This return point will be used after all processing has finished, or a Terminate action is encountered. Enable Rule Disabling - This flag controls whether disabled rules will be allowed in this RuleBase. If this is not ticked, then even if a rule (or action) is set to be disabled, it will still be executed at runtime, whereas if it is ticked, each rule marked disabled will be ignored. Enable Forward Chaining - By default this option is disabled and the rules will be fired based on their order within the list of rules. If enabled, the ordering can become much more dynamic, based on the current state of the data. Please see the next section on Forward Chaining for more information on how this works.