Hi Justin,
I have copied this to the OSHIP-dev list so that others may benefit
from the conversation.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Roberto Siqueira
<siqueira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:siqueira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all:
Let me try to address the "XMLSpy" part:
> - why can't XML spy be used? (or similar xml editor) - there are
> existing tools to build xml files from xsd files. Converting the xsd
> files to Glade widget is basically converting xsd to xml - since
glade
> is an xml in its entirety.
You're perfectly right [in fact, that's precisely the reason why
moving from ADL to XML was a big step forward: we don't need to
"reinvent the wheel" any more]. There are even XSD-aware,
context-sensitive editors like Oxygen
( http://www.oxygenxml.com/intelligent_xml_editing.html ) and
Serna Free
( http://www.syntext.com/products/serna/features/xml-validation/
), that
are *very* user-friendly.
But you must remember that our main users are MDs (medicine doctors),
not ITs (information technologists). On the long run, some of them
will
get well acquainted with the XML tools, but most of them will
rather use
something like http://www.phpform.org/ (by the way, the nicest "form
buider" I've found so far!) instead. Indeed, that's is the main
paradigm
of this 2-tier project: to separate the medical knowledge "layer" from
the IT one, so each specialist can concentrate only on his/her own
domain.
I'm not certain that I was clear in past emails about the use of XML
Schemas as concept constraint definitions (CCDs), aka. archetypes in
openEHR and in template constraint definitions (TCDs), aka. Templates
in openEHR.
Both the CCD and TCD should be represented as an XML Schema NOT just
an XML file. Remeber that an 'archetype' does not contain data. It is
a defining framework for data. The 'instance' of an archetype is
similar to an XML file. These contain data and must validate against
the archetype/template or CCD/TCD respectively.
So, for CCD and TCD schemas; they will 'include' the XML schemas of
the reference model and then define the clinical concept (CCD) or a
group of clinical concepts (TCD).
Comments? / Suggestions?
Tim
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