I've been looking at schematron for doing the "equivalent" of archetype in a more general situation, particularly since there as been no ADL parser available in Java. Schematron seems to be reasonably popular for enforcing rules for XML data structures and there is a variety of software available for using it.
Dave On Tue, March 8, 2005 4:28 am, Gavin Brelstaff said: > Rahil Qamar wrote: > >> Hi Alfonso >> >> I can answer one of your questions for certain and am not very sure >> about another one. >> >> Alfonso Mata wrote: >> >>> - Is it possible to obtain a XML-Schema based on 13606 from an ADL >>> file? >>> >>> >> You can obtain an XML representation of the ADL Archetype from the >> Archetype Editor but not an XML Schema. Atleast not at the moment. >> However Im trying to write out a schema based on the UML Archetype >> Object Model. Its not proving to be an easy task is all I can say ! I've >> done one version of the schema but its far from perfect to generate a >> sensible XML. If you are interested in doing some work on this we could >> collaborate. > > There are some less heavy ways of doing XML rule checking that > avoid most of the irrational intricacies of the W3C Schema. > Did you ever explore > Jim Clark's RelaxNG for schema validation of XML structures, > and > Schematron for rules involving Co-occurance relationships. > > That might be a way to go. > > > -- > Gavin Brelstaff - BioMedical Area, CRS4 in Sardinia > Loc. Pixina Manna Edificio 1, > C.P. n.25, 09010 Pula (CA) Italy. > Email: gjb at crs4.it Phone:+39.070.9250.312 Fax:+39.070.9250.216 > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > -- David Forslund Laboratory Fellow Associate CCS-DO MS B265 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 505-665-2633 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
