NSI XML Retail Accounting
Report Consuming Application 1.0
Conformance Requirements

NAME

NSI XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application

LABEL

XML RETAIL ACCOUNTING

When the NASPL Certification Logo, along with this label, is used on, or in relation to, a technology registered as conformant to this Conformance Requirements Document, it must be accompanied by an attribution in the form defined in Schedule 4 of the applicable North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries Trademark License Agreement.

DESCRIPTION

This Conformance Requirements Document is for applications that consume retail accounting information reported by lotteries to lottery product retailers.

The following definition is used in this document:

XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application
A software application that makes use of reports conforming to the XML Retail Accounting Reports Technical Standard. Certification encompasses the extraction of conformant accounting information in a specified operating environment.

CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

The Conformance Requirements are derived from the following Technical Standard:

XML Retail Accounting Reports in the Lottery Industry, Version 1.0, Document Number TS0402, June 2005, and any Corrigenda issued against such Technical Standard, supplemented by any Interpretations applicable to this particular version and revision of the Technical Standard.

"Mapping Table" below refers to Section 5.4, "NSI Standard Lottery-Retail Accounting Mapping Table3" of the Technical Standard.

A conformant XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application must:

Demonstrate that it processes, consolidates, and reports all the mandatory "Required" data items, as defined in the Mapping Table.
Demonstrate that it processes, consolidates, and reports all the non-mandatory "Optional" data items, as defined in the Mapping Table, for which support is indicated in the Conformance Statement.
Demonstrate that it processes, consolidates, and reports all the non-mandatory "Optional" data items, as defined in the Mapping Table, for which it is indicated in the Conformance Statement that the data item is not explicitly supported, but rather that the data is consolidated into a single data item.
Parse and correctly validate the relevant PCATS Schemas as defined in the "Overriding Standards" section in this document, and as mapped in the Mapping Table.
Demonstrate that all data items processed, consolidated, and reported preserve the same meaning and semantics as defined in the Mapping Table.

OVERRIDING STANDARDS

The relevant PCATS Schemas as defined in the "Reference Documents" section of the Technical Standard or the following, whichever is the later.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition), W3C Recommendation 04, February 2004
ISO 4217:2001, Codes for the Representation of Currencies and Funds
PCATS-NAXML-CountryCodes.xsd
PCATS-NAXML-LotDoc.xsd, Version 1.5 Release 3
PCATS-NAXML-Common.xsd, Version 1.5 Release 3
PCATS-NAXML-LotteryAllowanceOrChangeReason.xsd, Version 1.5 Release 3
PCATS-NAXML-LotteryDictionary.xsd, Version 1.5 Release 3
PCATS-NAXML-StatesProvinces.xsd

INDICATORS OF CONFORMANCE

For an XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application, the Indicators of Conformance are:

A Conformance Statement that shows how the technology meets the Conformance Requirements defined above.
A completed Validation Report, as specified in the NSI XML Retail Accounting Reports Validation Specification, including any supporting information and results interpretation.

MIGRATION

As this is the first version of the NSI XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application Conformance Requirements, there are no migration issues.

NSI XML Retail Accounting Report Consuming Application 1.0Conformance Requirements