Gerard Freriks wrote:
> My question:
>
> - What is your justification for your statement?
a) Safety
b) Efficiency
c) Best practice
>
> "
>> /| Microsoft uses a lot of XML documents in its products and many of
>> them use/
>>> /elements to contain values. In fact if you go to W3Cschools you
>>> will see
>>> /
>>> /the majority of examples using element values, and this is a resource
>>> /
>>> /teaching the basics of XML.
>>> /
>>> /
>>> /
>>> /
>>> /
>> /For instructional documents aimed at those learning XML it is nice
>> and simple. //If however you are looking to create a bullet proof
>> serialization in XML /
> /where the values matter then it is a poor design."/
>
>
> In my opinion things can equally expressed in attributes and the
> 'elements', as this is subject to (local) agreements.
> Although CEN/tc251 has published a report (CEN/tc251 TS 15211) some
> years ago where they proposed to express data values as an attribute,
> I have my doubts.
> I think it is more correct to reserve attributes to express meta-data
> about the date value in the 'XML-element'.
> Attributes to express: language, coding system, precision, etc.
<definition
archetype_id="openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.check_list-condition-third_party.v1"
xsi:type="EVALUATION">
<Rule name="Has anyone in your family had:"
path="/data[at0001]/items[at0004]"/>
<Rule name="Diabetes" path="/data[at0001]/items[at0004 and
name/value='Question group']/items[at0002]"/>
</definition>
????
From an OpenEHR Template.
Is this wrong? I would argue this is much better XML than that found in
the XML serialization of an Archetype.
Adam
>
> Gerard Freriks
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> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin
> Franklin 11 Nov 1755
>
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> On Nov 30, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Adam Flinton wrote:
>
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