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[Timothy Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Roger Erens <roger.erens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> 1) you mention XHTML2, but W3C's work on that ceased in
> 2009:http://www.w3.org/2009/06/xhtml-faq.html as the competing HTML5
> took victory. So

Thanks for the link.  I made the correction.  However, I would like
everyone to know that work has not stopped on XForms.  It is growing
in popularity.  There are some open source healthcare apps written
using just XForms.  However, They do not provide the structural
semantics that can be created using MLHIM and XForms.

> 3) The 'MLHIM Overview' and 'XForms Overview' sections should better
> be followed by a section that connects the two with some text that is
> now contained in the XForms section.
> 4) Do CCDs (data storage) and XForms (data capture/presentation) make
> up for only some very simple healthcare applications (workflows)? I
> would imagine that for more complex applications some computing (data
> manipulation) is needed as well in a separate business logic layer,
> which is where programming languages come into play. Is this what you
> allude to in your 2 final paragraphs?

Yes, this is what the last two paragraphs are intended to do.  I have
made some slight changes here.  I hope it makes it clearer that there
is significant computability capabilities as well as the fact the XML
Schemas (CCDs) can provide the data model for XForms.

http://www.mlhim.org/MLHIM-XForms.pdf/view

Comments?
Cheers,
Tim