Yes, indeed! It's a choice between composition versus association. Cheers, Rong
2009/6/10 Peter Gummer <peter.gummer at oceaninformatics.com>: > Rong Chen wrote: >> I would say our use case for the link is also between compositions. >> For the reasons you mentioned, it would be nice to just use the >> archetypeId in the constraint for the value (URI) of the link. Then it >> starts to look like a mini query. >> > > It starts looking like a kind of slot too, but whereas a slot has > aggregation semantics (i.e. the data in the slot is "owned" by the > containing archetype), a link is just an association. So maybe links > could use the same regular expression patterns that slots use. > > - Peter > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical >
