Hello Ian Thank you very much for your response.
All the best Athanasios Anastasiou On 19/03/2012 10:19, Ian McNicoll wrote: > Hi Athanasios, > > Ocean operational template (Template.xsd) and thew proposed TOM changes > marry up as Operational Templates. As I understand it the proposed TOM > operational template schema is virtually identical to the current Ocean > operational template template.xsd. > > >>Would the following be correct? > > >> 1) A template is "archetypeable" which means that it too will have > an ID and its own path prefix > > Yes, all that happens is that the archetyped data carries a template > identifier, in addition to the archetypeID. Querying can completely > ignore the templating aspect. > > >> 3) A template must contain "section" elements. These are > archetypeable entities. Each section describes a list of archetypeable > "Items". > > No - Section elements are completely optional and only apply to > Composition templates - see below. > > >> 4) A template might contain "subsection" elements if this is required. > > Yes > > >> 2) A template must contain a "composition" which contains a list of > archetypeable "Items". > > No - Templates can be applied to any archetype. Many templates will be > at Composition level but others just add constraints to Entry or even > Cluster archetypes. We call these embedded templates in the Ocean tools > and as the name suggests these can be re-used within other templates. > > Just think of templates as another layer of constraint. In ADL1.5, > templates and specialised archetypes are essentially identical. The only > difference (yet to be decided) is that templates cannot add new content. > Both can further constrain their parent. > > > > On 16 March 2012 14:08, Athanasios Anastasiou > <athanasios.anastasiou at plymouth.ac.uk > <mailto:athanasios.anastasiou at plymouth.ac.uk>> wrote: > > Hello everyone > > I was wondering if there are any updates regarding openEHR Templates? > > I am not sure how the material in the TOM > > (http://www.openehr.org/svn/__specification/TRUNK/__publishing/architecture/am/__tom.pdf > > <http://www.openehr.org/svn/specification/TRUNK/publishing/architecture/am/tom.pdf>) > maps to the currently available XSD at > (http://www.openehr.org/__releases/1.0.2/its/XML-schema/__Template.xsd > <http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.2/its/XML-schema/Template.xsd>) > > Would the following be correct? > > 1) A template is "archetypeable" which means that it too will have > an ID and its own path prefix > > 3) A template must contain "section" elements. These are > archetypeable entities. Each section describes a list of > archetypeable "Items". > > 4) A template might contain "subsection" elements if this is required. > > 2) A template must contain a "composition" which contains a list of > archetypeable "Items". > > > Therefore to "build a Template", one would first need to list the > composing archetypes as Items of subsections (if subsections are > required). Then list the subsections as items of sections and > finally, list sections as items of the "Composition". And this > concludes at least with the structural part (?) > > > 3) A template must contain either "Observation" or "Evaluation" > elements (depending on the nature of the template (?)) that describe > lists of "Entry". These elements set the default values of the > composing archetypes individual fields through a series of > "Statement"s. (or evaluate expressions) > > Would this be an accurate description? > > Looking forward to hearing from you > Athanasios Anastasiou > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at lists.__openehr.org > <mailto:openEHR-technical at lists.openehr.org> > > http://lists.openehr.org/__mailman/listinfo/openehr-__technical_lists.openehr.org > > <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org> > > > > > -- > Dr Ian McNicoll > office +44 (0)1536 414 994 > fax +44 (0)1536 516317 > mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 > skype ianmcnicoll > ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com <mailto:ian.mcnicoll at > oceaninformatics.com> > > Clinical Modelling Consultant, Ocean Informatics, UK > Director/Clinical Knowledge Editor openEHR Foundation > www.openehr.org/knowledge <http://www.openehr.org/knowledge> > Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL > SCIMP Working Group, NHS Scotland > BCS Primary Health Care www.phcsg.org <http://www.phcsg.org> >