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[Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

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>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