[Gnumed-devel] XML forms

[Ian Haywood]

> > [Karsten: how can we quarantine these bureaucratic aspects,
> > which go beyond simple translation, or do we need to fork
> > prescription modules for each country, sharing a common
> > codebase?]
> IMHO we will have to either write country-specific plugins or
> make the display/process parser for the XML template
> sufficiently powerful. I'd assume the latter is technically
> more correct but also more work (which we may have to do
> eventually anyways to cope with other forms, too). XML
> templates may contain Python code in their input field
> definitions. Don't know how workable that is but GNUe goes
> down that road.

In that case, you might as well do the whole UI as XML: interesting,
but IMHO should be post-1.0

We already have empty UI widgets for all the core modules except clinical 
notes, which
can use a backend forms processor (that can ultimately become GUI as well) to 
print.

Ian  

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