Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-11 Thread Randolph Neall
Hi Tim, Because of your wide exposure to numerous systems and experts, I have two questions for you, both of which you can answer as briefly as you choose: 1. Did I capture an underlying difference between experts in this discussion we've had about Tim's system? Specifically, does one camp

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 09/04/2013 22:18, Tim Cook wrote: There are a large number of misconceptions and incorrect assumptions in this thread. I don't have time right now to address all of them but I will later this week. Quickly though, there are no tricks to what we do in MLHIM. Everything is 100% W3C

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Bert Verhees
The book on RelaxNG is free available on the Internet http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/page2.html It is released under the/Free Software Foundation GFDL http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/relax-APP-B.html./ Bert On 04/10/2013 11:33 AM, Bert Verhees wrote: On 04/09/2013 11:18 PM, Tim

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Bert Verhees
On 04/10/2013 02:33 PM, Thomas Beale wrote: Redefinition of a component after it has been used to generate instance data is a BAD THING. This is an open door, a definition can never be changed again and having the same name. Bert

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/04/2013 13:33, Tim Cook wrote: [reposted for Tim; hist original bounced] On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: it's similar, but misses the crucial distinction between archetypes and templates. Without that there is no library of

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
Tim, Looking at the extract below, this MLHIM model would be hard to use as a basis for generating source code facades, WSDL, JSON UI form specifications, and other things we regularly generate downstream from templates. - thomas On 10/04/2013 14:01, Timothy W. Cook wrote: I would like to

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/04/2013 15:46, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: Tim, Looking at the extract below, this MLHIM model would be hard to use as a basis for generating source code facades, WSDL, JSON UI form specifications, and

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-10 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/04/2013 16:42, Randolph Neall wrote: The real question thus comes down to what level of thought the nameable components of a model should express. If the entire model could be understood as a tree, how complex should the named branches of that model be, and how enduring should the

Multi-level modelling - what does it mean?

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Beale
To put some numbers on things... in a 2012 snapshot of the openEHR.org CKM archetypes there are: * 267 compiling (i.e. technically valid archetypes) o including 94 specialised ones * In these archetypes there are: o 3208 'archetypable' nodes (i.e. LOCATABLE nodes) o of