I vote for the pragmatic approach when we don't control the reference model
<quote who="Kerry Raymond"> > >> A pragmatic approach would be to do what you say. We could probably >> argue for this just on the basis of the fact that many reference >> models (i.e. object models) are not well constructed, and out of the >> control of the archetype designers, and/or that models consdered good >> today are shown up later on by changing requirements, which changes >> the validity of inheritances such as the one Kerry points out. > > Yes, that's the angle I'm coming from (where we don't control the > reference model). > > And in any case, I don't see the openEHR following the purist road of > having FullySpecifiedDateTime or > ObjectIdThatIsntArchetypeIdNorTerminologyIdEtc :-) -- Carl Mattocks co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC CEO CHECKMi v/f (usa) 908 322 8715 www.CHECKMi.com Semantically Smart Compendiums [AOL] IM CarlCHECKMi - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
