Airbus A320 A330 A340 A380 AMM SGML Data User Guide – Version 2.0 March 2022

Description

File Details

• Manual type: SGML Data User Guide / Technical Reference
• Brand: Airbus
• Covered aircraft: A320 family (A318, A319, A320, A321), A330/A340, A380
• Document title: AMM SGML Data User Guide
• Version: 2.0
• Date: March 2022
• DTD reference: //ATA-TEXT//DTD AMM-VER12-LEVEL2//EN
• Language: English
• Page count: 329
• File format: PDF

What This Airbus AMM SGML Data User Guide Covers

This Airbus A320 A330 A340 A380 AMM SGML Data User Guide Version 2.0 is the document that explains how Airbus Aircraft Maintenance Manual data is structured, tagged, and delivered in SGML format. It is written for the people who receive, process, transform, or publish Airbus AMM data: technical documentation teams, data integrators, SGML and XML conversion specialists, and maintenance data managers who need to understand exactly what each element, attribute, and structural rule means before building tools or workflows around it.

The guide is organized around the DTD itself, walking through every supported element from the AMM top-level root down through chapters, sections, subjects, page blocks, tasks, subtasks, and the low-level inline elements that make up the actual text and tables. Each element section follows a consistent pattern: a chart representation showing parent/child relationships and occurrence rules, a content definition table explaining what the element and its attributes mean, instantiation rules describing how Airbus actually uses the element in delivered data, and sample fragments taken from real SGML instances. This structure makes the guide usable both as a learning document and as a desk reference for resolving specific tagging questions during development or data validation.

Chapters Covered

• 1. Welcome
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. DTD Identification Rules
  • 2.2. Contents of Delivery (Media Control File, SGML Declaration File, CGM Declaration File, SGML Graphic Entity File, SGML Companion Entity File, SGML Non-graphic Entity File, SGML Warnings and Cautions Entities Files)
• 3. How to Use This User Guide
  • 3.1. Section Description
  • 3.2. Instructions to Use This User Guide
• 4. Manual Structure
  • 4.1. General Overview
  • 4.2. Top Level Element (AMM)
  • 4.3. AMM Preliminary Part (LEGALNTC, CPYRIGHT, GENINFO, MFMATR, TRLIST, INTRO, EFFXREF, CUS, SBLIST, SBNRMF, SBNBR, COCLIST, ACLIST, COCNBR, MDNBR, EONBR, ICS, GLOSSARY)
  • 4.4. Aircraft Zoning and Access (ZAC, ACCLST, ACCDATA, ZONING, ZONDATA, BOUNDARY)
  • 4.5. AMM Breakdown Structure (CHAPTER, SECTION, SUBJECT, PGBLK)
  • 4.6. Description and Operation (PRCLIST1, PRCITEM, EQULST, ATANBR)
  • 4.7. Task Level (TASK, ASSODATA, TFMATR, PRETOPIC, TOPIC, SUBTASK, %G.R., LIST1)
  • 4.8. Low Level Structural Elements (%EIN, %TEXT, %W.C., CAUTION, WARNING, NOTE, CBLST, EQUNAME, MFR, TABLE, COLSPEC, ROW, PAN, TITLE, UNLIST, ZONE)
  • 4.9. Inline Elements (PARA, CB, CON, CSN, EXPD, EIN, NCON, STD, STDNAME, TED, TOOLNBR, TOR, TXTGRPHC)
• 5. ATA TECHREQ Implementation
  • 5.1. Text Entity Set Declaration
  • 5.2. Notation Declaration
  • 5.3. Revision Management
  • 5.4. Effectivity Management
  • 5.5. Internal and External References Management
  • 5.6. Graphic References Mechanism
• 6. Main Unused Structures
• 7. AMM DTD
• 8. Appendices (Appendix I: Referenced Documents, Appendix II: Acronyms)
• 9. AMM Element List

How the AMM SGML Structure Is Documented

The AMM SGML Data User Guide starts at the top: the AMM root element and its attributes, including SPL, MODEL, OIDATE, REVDATE, TSN, CUS, CUSNAME, LANG, CHG, EFFLEN, and EFFTYPE. It explains the DTD identification rules, the difference between the published ATA DTD and Airbus intermediate DTD versions, and how the content of delivery is organized across the various entity and declaration files. From there it moves into the manual structure: the preliminary part with its legal notice, copyright, general information, temporary revision list, introduction, effectivity cross-reference table, service bulletin list, customer originated change list, and glossary. Each of these is broken down element by element, with the actual Airbus instantiation rules documented alongside the generic DTD definitions.

The guide then covers aircraft zoning and access, the AMM breakdown structure, description and operation content, the task level (including task front matter, pretopics, topics, and subtasks), and the low-level structural elements that carry the actual procedure text. It documents the table model, circuit breaker lists, equipment identification numbers, consumables, expendable parts, standard and special tools, torque values, and the inline elements that appear inside paragraphs. Effectivity management, revision management, internal and external references, and graphic references each get their own dedicated section. The AMM DTD itself is reproduced in full, followed by appendices listing referenced documents and acronyms, and a complete alphabetical element list.

Practical Use in Maintenance Data Workflows

Anyone building a toolchain around Airbus AMM data needs to know how Airbus actually instantiates the DTD, not just what the DTD declares as legal. This guide closes that gap. It explains how effectivity is expressed using the EFFRG attribute, how the EFFECT, SBEFF, and COCEFF elements distinguish actual from conditional effectivity, how range opening works in fleet-customized manuals, and how SBCOND and COCCOND values such as PRE, POST, and EMB are used. It documents how revision marking is applied at anchor level and at data flow level using REVST and REVEND, including the specific rules for effectivity revision marking.

The reference and graphics mechanisms are covered in detail: REFBLOCK and REFINT for internal references, REFEXT for external references to manuals, OMS functions, and web pages, REFMEDIA for non-graphic media files, and GRPHCREF, GRAPHIC, and SHEET for illustrations. The guide explains the GNBR and CFNBR entity naming conventions, the IMGAREA values, and how 2D and 3D graphics are declared. For anyone mapping AMM SGML content into another format, validating delivered data, or building a viewer, these are the rules that determine whether the output is correct.

Why This Airbus AMM SGML Data User Guide Matters

With this guide, you can correctly interpret every element in an Airbus AMM SGML delivery, from the AMM root attributes through the preliminary front matter, zoning and access data, the ATA breakdown structure, task-level content, low-level structural elements, and inline formatting. You can build or validate parsers, map SGML content to other formats, understand the revision and effectivity marking conventions, and know exactly how graphics, warnings, cautions, and reference mechanisms are represented. Getting this wrong means misreading maintenance data: the wrong effectivity, a missed revision mark, an incorrectly parsed task variant, or a broken reference. The guide removes that risk by documenting the actual Airbus instantiation rules, not just the DTD skeleton.

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Delivered as an instant PDF download after checkout. No shipping, no waiting. Read it on any device and print pages if you need a desk reference. This is the Version 2.0 edition dated March 2022, covering the A320 family, A330/A340, and A380 AMM SGML data delivery, including the revised REFMEDIA handling and the updated contents of delivery with the MULTIMEDIA directory.