Re: [COAS-List] SGML Thread on Report Types

[Tim Brinson <tim@protocol.com>]

"David W. Forslund" wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 11/4/98 -0500, Wayne Wilson wrote:
> >  Another issue here is that if reports have structure, treating them as
> >a single thing from COAS's perspective will be the logical equivalent of
> >BLOB's in RDBMS's, not very useful at the end of the day. So you need a
> >generic mechanism to represent parts and then structure.
> 
> I agree.  And this is just another argument for being able to define the
> structure (with a DTD?).

I (and I presume all COAS submitters) agree too.  As I pointed out in
the last email COAS does have the ability to represent structure.  We
discussed the relationship to XML on Monday's conference call.  I see
DTDs as a possible mechanism to define the strucure of observations.  I
believe in CORBAmed (and specifically in COAS) we will not be defining
many of these structures but instead leaving that to other standards
bodies (e.g. HL7, DICOM, CEN, etc.).  It is important that COAS will be
consistent with (can utilize) their strucures.


Tim
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