I would say the reason to show those 3 alternatives was to prevent the
user to overwrite a potential xxxxx.v1 archetype with a xxxxx.v2
archetype. It seems like it can be annoying sometimes so we should
make it a configuration option (and switched off by default).

2012/6/24 Thomas Beale <thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com>:
>
> Bert,
>
> yes, you are right. It's not required, and the ADL Workbench and Ocean
> Template Designer don't care about the file name. It's a straightforward
> matter for all tools to remove this restriction (it means running a
> micro-parser across all the files to read the first line or few lines, so
> that an explorer / browser widget can be populated).
>
> - thomas
>
>
> On 24/06/2012 13:30, Bert Verhees wrote:
>
> Please consider following.
>
> I think it is a weak point to have a file which contains an archetype having
> the same name as the archetype-id.
> This policy is enforced by as well the OCEAN-editor as the LinkEHR editor
> (however the latter has a bug in this).
>
> I don't know if it is "officially" specified. But the disadvantage is that
> information is stored twice in the same file (in the contents and in the
> filename), this can cause problems, ambiguities.
>
> Also, it is unnecessary restrictive, it is impossible to store more
> archetypes in one text-file.
>
> Many programming languages have the same restriction, but often the have
> also workarounds for this restriction.
>
> regards
> Bert Verhees
>
>
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