I suspect that it isn't that there isn't a need or an interest, it is that there are those of us who barely understand or don't understand what you are talking about and couldn't help anyway, and of those that do, there are too few to do all of the work that needs doing.
If I understand what you are saying, I would think that this would be a very important tool and I also wonder if it is not something like what Easy Objects does, which I think might have made data objects out of the elements for that tool, and if either or both of these it would help in creating the CCR or customized outputs and inputs in a browser or something else that could be used to create documents that combine the text elements from Templates in CPRS and the graphical elements that would allow drawing and pictures and a way to file this away and associate that file with a patient record. Right now that would all seem to require VistA-Imaging, which is likely not feasible to use at the moment. That is important because scanning and the ability to do simple line drawing is needed by the people using VistA-Office. I see you are keeping your usual hours! On Tuesday 05 July 2005 04:40 am, Jim Self wrote: > Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > >Off hand, I can't think of an easy way to incorporate an XML > >generator into the Export tool, or to iterate through a sort template > >programmatically (with an appropriate hook to generate XML). Maybe > >someone else will have some ideas. > > Since a search template only lists entries from a single file in a single > subscript level, a simple FOR loop should do it, or am I missing something > here. > > f ien=0:0 s ien=^DIBT(template,1,ien)) q:'ien d hook(ien) > > and in a separate message: > >What would be wonderful is a simple implementation of a generic iterator > >based on a sort template that could then be associated with any > >action we care to program (such as generating XML serialization of > >file entries). > > What do you think a generic iterator should look like? > > How would you use it? > > Why would that be wonderful? > > I have tried to initiate discussion on this topic before but I don't know > that anyone understood or was interested. To me it is an essential building > block. > > There is a simple generic iterator included with M2Web (see step^view2) > that covers a large class of multi-level MUMPS global data structures, > including most everything defined by Fileman - even including composite > cross references. > > I have been thinking of rewriting it to clean up the abstraction a little > and make it more object like so that, for instance, you could maintain the > state of multiple iterators in memory at once. > > --------------------------------------- > Jim Self > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
