Sam, It is only safe if the attributes are primitive types. However I think it would be a good saving considering the current attributes. Heath
_____ From: openehr-technical-boun...@openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Sam Heard Sent: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:09 PM To: For openEHR technical discussions Subject: Re: XML serializer (retry due to too large message) Hi We can add more attributes safely.....which I think is all that could be done without changing the model in a major manner, Sam Mattias Forss wrote: 2006/11/21, Sam Heard <sam.heard at oceaninformatics.biz>: The Ontology is so huge I have wondered about having the Text and Description as attributes - it would save a lot of space and I do not think it would complicate things at all. What do others think? Sounds like a good idea as long as the two parts (text, description) of the description items will remain. If more parts are added though, it is not a flexible solution. Mattias Cheers, Sam _____ _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical -- Dr. Sam Heard MBBS, FRACGP, MRCGP, DRCOG, FACHI CEO and Clinical Director Ocean Informatics Pty. <http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/> Ltd. Adjunct Professor, Health Informatics, Central Queensland University Senior Visiting Research Fellow, CHIME, University College London Chair, Standards Australia, EHR Working Group (IT14-9-2) Ph: +61 (0)4 1783 8808 Fx: +61 (0)8 8948 0215 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20061122/41d71116/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical