Multiple parents and max number of nested specialized archetypes?

2007-10-17 Thread Gerard Freriks
on the big picture, not the minutiae of data integrity, which is mostly overlooked but ubiquitiously present. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071017/d5d147e3

Multiple parents and max number of nested specialized archetypes?

2007-10-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Grahame Grieve wrote: At the moment we have not seen any need for multiple inheritance in archetypes. I see this as very similar to multiple inheritance in objects. There is no *need*, but there is useful things that can be done. The question is whether the price is justified. The

Multiple parents and max number of nested specialized archetypes?

2007-10-17 Thread Heather Leslie
Hi Koray, A practical example of 'C' that is currently in the archetype repository is the Histological Diagnosis archetype - openEHR-EHR-EVALUATION.problem-diagnosis-histological.v1.ad Problem -- specialised to Diagnosis -- specialised to Histological Diagnosis - all of which are in the

Multiple parents and max number of nested specialized archetypes?

2007-10-17 Thread Thomas Beale
Andrew Patterson wrote: I should note that in the next generation of archetypes and tooling, archetype 'source' files for specialised archetypes will be 'differential' in nature - i.e. valid ADL, but containing only added and changed items from the parent, just as for subclasses in an