Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: vpn justification for xml-rpc

[Ian Haywood]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:29:44 +1000
sjtan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Or writing a separate web client.
IMHO web clients are unusably slow even on the fastest network as a design issue
Remotely, it would just be too painful. 

A text-only client running via SSH would be interesting, Sebastian has floated 
this previously.

> If HL7 v3 becomes the common wire protocol for medical record messaging,  is
> there any need for xml-rpc?
AFAIK That's a long way into the future. The HL7 guys also still aren't very 
FOSS friendly:
you need big $$$ to see the specs. But it raises an interesting question, maybe 
the ideal
wire protocol for clinical data has two RPC functions: search_medical_record () 
which returns an array of 
record elements (corresponding to clin_root_item in our backend schema) 
and put_medical_record () for accepting a new element for inclusion.

Ian






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