Peter Gummer wrote: > 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. > >
Indeed however there are ways of persisting a model & they require at the end of the day a recognizable document design/format. I have already noted how using text children of an element to use a value vs a std "value" attribute in the archetype xml inflates the file sizes. <A> Some value </A> & <A value=""Some value"/> Are both persisting/serializing the same data. Adam > - Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************
