Re: [Gnumed-devel] Clinicians: document content date in archive

[James Busser]

On May 8, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > > > So, what do people think we should allow as input in terms
> > > > of string parsing. I am thinking of (d=digit)...
>
> > d or dd - date of current month...
>
> Note how I did not suggest supporting any of the patterns
> you mention.

d (or dd) is fast to input and unambiguous, so I disagree it be  
disallowed unless you are talking how it be *stored*. I agree that  
for the stored freetext value, a digit in isolation is meaningless.

So I presume now Karsten is talking about defining what is  
unambiguous (therefore acceptable) in the *backend* as opposed to  
how  frontend/middleware code would translate/transform the input  
prior to storage? I had thought such a widget would be seen as  
desirable on the "functionality roadmap"?