Re: [Gnumed-devel] some more experimental stuff.

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:49:07AM +1100, syan tan wrote:

> there is another schema walking tool in test-area/sjtan/schemascan2.py
> which at the moment is generating a compact relax_ng schema out of
> a walk over the gnumed schema. 
This sounds interesting. Is it possible that you checked it
into one of the branches ? I cannot see it in HEAD.

The rel-0-x-patches branches are intended for bug fixes
only. There's two places where you could usefully check in
your code:

- create a dedicated branch (say "schemascan2" or "sjtan")
  for it off any revision you like

- check it into the test_area/sjtan/ (as you did) but in the
  HEAD branch, that way your valuable work will have much more
  visibility !

>    I'd like the schema walker to be able to parse a directory of xbase
> tables, given some configuration, and latter maybe data transformation
> can be made semi-automatic/ configured.  It might even be possible
> to have a "leach mode" with gnumed running beside a legacy application's
> database
> whose schema can be transformed to gnumed, and when first opening 
> a record, it is leached into gnumed ; sort of import over a very
> long time.
That sounds very useful. I imagine the same thing with
German xDT files: The user generates a complete xDT export
of all patient data at one point. This gigantic file is then
parsed, displayed and partially imported/pruned of the
imported data when the user hits "import xDT for this
patient" in the GNUmed GUI. On-demand import, so to speak.

Karsten
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