On 22/08/2013 10:07, Bert Verhees wrote: > On 08/22/2013 10:48 AM, Thomas Beale wrote: >> The specification is technically no longer backward compatible, >> primarily because the special C_DV_ORDINAL and C_DV_QUANTITY syntaxes >> are no longer supported - in fact the whole openEHR Archetype profile >> is obsolete in ADL 1.5. > It is a good thing, I always hated these syntaxes. > > But of course, in my case, software must be able to use/process old > archetypes. > > But I guess this must be solved then by distinguishing the archetypes > by version, and take precautions in further processing software.
yes - ADL version is always indicated at the top of an archetype, even and ADL 1.4 archetype, so this can be used reliably. > > A conversion-routine from the profile-class-instances to the new AOM > class-instances is maybe able to do the trick, do you think that will > be feasible? certainly. In fact, at some point soon, I'll create a command line converter to batch convert ADL 1.4 archetypes to ADL 1.5 archetypes for the 3 main platforms and publish that. - thomas
