At 07:27 PM 11/17/99 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>David Forslund wrote:
>
> > Definitely, this is the more direct path, and one that was mentioned a lot
> > in the talks. It should be possible to go directly from the RIM to XML
> > using the XMI and MOF.
> >
> > >Second, XMI is not about exchanging medical information, it is about
> > >exchanging information models (so called "meta data"). So, yea, while
> > >XMI is about UML and XML and DTDs and stuff, it doesn't give you a
> > >quick way to XML representations of medical information. So again,
> > >bringing in XMI and MOF is distracting and has little gain for an
> > >EMR application project.
> >
> > This was not the conclusion from the discussion we had. One should
> > be able to put the RIM into the MOF and create XML representations of it.
> > This isn't everything, but it would allow for a good start on creating
> > standard representations of
> > the RIM.
>[...]
> > I urge you to look at the MOF and the commercial tools being developed.
> > I believe they can be of great help to HL7.
>
>David,
>
>Could you help me then? I have looked at XMI and MOF previously and
>shortly before I wrote this to make sure I have not overlooked
>something. Now you say I have overlooked something. Can you point
>me to the exact section or page in these documents where it is
>explicitly stated that the approach is for generating DTDs for
>*instances* of a UML model? So far, all I can see is they define
>a structure for UML models themselves to be shipped around in
>XML representations. But this is a very crucial difference!
I'm still learning what has been done, but they demonstrated more than
simply moving UML models
around at this OMG meeting but full exchange of datawarehousing information
between
5 different vendor products. One white paper that is interesting is:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/standards/xmiwhite0399.pdf
Also: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/CWMI_RFP.html
has a link to an initial submission that was the basis of the demonstration
given at this OMG meeting.
Perhaps this will help.
Dave
>regards
>-Gunther
>
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