Thomas Beale wrote: > ... In our own EHR > product we have had to resort to various kinds of compression, which > impact on performance, and we have to have larger disc arrays than would > be needed if the data were represented in a more efficient way. Our > engineers are currently looking at replacing XML altogether in the > persistence layer.
And Adam Flinton replied: > You are mistaking a format for a design. I agree entirely that HL7 is > vastly inflated. Adam, I think you've misunderstood Thomas's point about "our own EHR product". It is not HL7. It's an XML serialisation of openEHR data. Thomas was illustrating his contention about XML per se. - Peter
