Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-05-08 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: Erik Sundvall wrote: Actually I would prefer more emphasis on the view that the AM is the main reference and that ADL is a serialization of it. But a reference form of individual _archetypes_

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-05-08 Thread Thomas Beale
Erik Sundvall wrote: Hi! Are all details of known possible deficiencies of the AOM listed somewhere? Plans for bugfixes? This is vital information for all AOM based approaches and transformations going via AOM! agree. Probably not absolutely all just yet, but if you go to

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-21 Thread Heath Frankel
Adam, Indeed however there are ways of persisting a model they require at the end of the day a recognizable document design/format. I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std value attribute in the archetype xml inflates the file sizes. A

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-21 Thread Peter Gummer
Adam Flinton wrote: I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std value attribute in the archetype xml inflates the file sizes. A Some value /A A value=Some value/ And Heath Frankel replied: Your example here is contrary to your statement,

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-21 Thread Adam Flinton
Heath Frankel wrote: Adam, Indeed however there are ways of persisting a model they require at the end of the day a recognizable document design/format. I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std value attribute in the archetype xml inflates the

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-21 Thread Adam Flinton
- Original Message - From: Colin Sutton ColinS at ctc.usyd.edu.au To: Peter Gummer peter.gummer at oceaninformatics.com; For openEHR technical discussions openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:02 PM Subject: RE: Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-21 Thread Adam Flinton
Colin Sutton wrote: With a compression algorithm, the difference may be negligible. Heath's first example is smaller than the second when zipped due to the repeated strings. Of course, the result may be quite different for a larger sample where value= is repeated. even larger should

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-19 Thread Sam Heard
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2008-04-19 Thread Sam Heard
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2008-04-18 Thread Adam Flinton
Thomas Beale wrote: Adam Flinton wrote: Other limitations on using XML - it's a no-show for enterprise scale databases or information processing. All that wasted space starts to count when you have to buy two ?20,000 high availability RAID disk arrays instead of oneand

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Gummer
Thomas Beale wrote: ... In our own EHR product we have had to resort to various kinds of compression, which impact on performance, and we have to have larger disc arrays than would be needed if the data were represented in a more efficient way. Our engineers are currently looking at replacing

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-18 Thread Adam Flinton
Peter Gummer wrote: Adam Flinton wrote: I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std value attribute in the archetype xml inflates the file sizes. So you aren't convinced by Thomas's objection that putting the values in XML attributes

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-18 Thread Thomas Beale
Adam Flinton wrote: Peter Gummer wrote: Adam Flinton wrote: I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std value attribute in the archetype xml inflates the file sizes. So you aren't convinced by Thomas's objection that

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Sam Heard wrote: Dear All After discussions with users and in consideration of the range of platforms now being implemented, it would seem appropriate to move to a multiplatform documentation process for openEHR artefacts. The important specific documentation to consider are for

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Peter Gummer wrote: sam.heard signatureSam Heard wrote: What we need is an XSL Script that consumes XML archetypes ... Hi Sam, XSLT is ok in small doses, but it becomes unmaintainable for anything complex. Other approaches share the advantages claimed at

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Heath Frankel wrote: Peter, The key is that by using XSLT we don't need to use one particular software component and as you say, everyone can execute an XSLT script in their chosen environment where the output should be almost the same. We have done many XSL transformations from AOM XML and

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2008-04-17 Thread Sam Heard
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2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Sam Heard wrote: Adam Heath Frankel has developed a proposal for a new version of the XML (the first was a straight serialisation of the AOM) which makes it a lot tidier. The ARB will be reviewing this at some point. It would be good to get a few opinions sooner rather than later.

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Sam Heard wrote: Dear All After discussions with users and in consideration of the range of platforms now being implemented, it would seem appropriate to move to a multiplatform documentation process for openEHR artefacts. The important specific documentation to consider are for

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Adam Flinton wrote: XSLT requires design not different from anything else. Use the unix app mentality i.e. that a given script does one job well then have a number of scripts alles will be in ordnung. this is certainly the way to go alright. It does mean you need decent shell and/or

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Adam Flinton wrote: Oh one quick ancillary question Does this/ Would this include Template (.oet) XHTML via XSLT? *Adam, The current (simple) .oet XML format for templates will soon be replaced with a proper openEHR XSD (also simple) which is more based on the AOM, and hence

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Other limitations on using XML - it's a no-show for enterprise scale databases or information processing. All that wasted space starts to count when you have to buy two ?20,000 high availability RAID disk arrays instead of oneand plus the bandwidth wastage when there are

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:29 +0100, Adam Flinton wrote: umm...where to even startoh yes how about... You left out the fact that XML cannot semantically reproduce an object model. Now wrt ADL. ADL does semantically describe the AOM. Cheers, Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:01 +0200, Gerard Freriks wrote: What about ASN.1 isn't that a good alternative? This brings up a good point. ASN.1 (much like XML) is a communications protocol. These work well for flat message transactions where there is no need to be concerned with temporal or

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Tim Cook wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:29 +0100, Adam Flinton wrote: umm...where to even startoh yes how about... You left out the fact that XML cannot semantically reproduce an object model. XML is a form of text markup. It is more analogous to the English

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Flinton
Gerard Freriks wrote: The crux might be in the text in red. Everything can be made to work. A floating boat made out of match stick. Yes it is possible, Gee they'll be making boats bridges out of iron steel next. but not the bet engineering choice. Perhaps XML is not the best choice in

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Adam Flinton wrote: Other limitations on using XML - it's a no-show for enterprise scale databases or information processing. All that wasted space starts to count when you have to buy two ?20,000 high availability RAID disk arrays instead of oneand plus the bandwidth wastage

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-16 Thread Peter Gummer
sam.heard signatureSam Heard wrote: What we need is an XSL Script that consumes XML archetypes ... Hi Sam, XSLT is ok in small doses, but it becomes unmaintainable for anything complex. Other approaches share the advantages claimed at

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-16 Thread Sam Heard
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2008-04-16 Thread Rong Chen
Hi Sam, I would also like to try out these XSLT scripts. Besides HTML, we could also transform archetypes (XML) to other formats, e.g. MindMap and PDF using XSLT. HTML and MindMap are good for on-line browsing. PDF is good for print-out and off-line use. Both are needed for a knowledge

Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Beale
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