[Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed-devel Digest, Vol 55, Issue 18

[Ruthard Baudach]

Am 27.06.2007, 17:27 Uhr, schrieb <address@hidden>:

> > That would work. XML is not always best, but if you tell people that
> > your form definitions are shareable as CSV files, they will look at you
> > very strangely, whereas if you say "shareable as XML" then they won't be
> > surprised at all.
> A good social engineering argument.
> I suppose we'd wrap the CSV in minimalist XML to please them
> peoples:
> <xml>
> <fancy_message caption="this is the new fancy form you asked  
> for"></fancy_message>
> <csv>
> the,csv,for,copy,to,insert
> </csv>
> </xml>
> et voila, shareable via XML where GNUmed displays
> $fancy_message and instructs psql-whatnot to go its merry way
> with the CSV data.

Another point for XML: it transports definition and content of an  
information in human readable form. CSV defines the meaning of a field by  
mere order - usually you have to know what the sixth or eightth field  
means.

a form content like:
<form>
        <name>
                SampleForm
        </name>
                <date>
                2007-05-03
        </date>
        <content>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                firstname
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                Ubongo
                        </content>
                </field>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                lastname
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                Uawe
                        </content>
                </field>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                title
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                Hoho san mie
                        </content>
                </field>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                age
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                11
                        </content>
                </field>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                weight
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                30
                        </content>
                </field>
                <field>
                        <type>
                                date since valid
                        </type>
                        <content>
                                2007-01-01
                </field>
                <field>
                        </type>
                                date till valid 
                        </type
                        <content>
                                2007-03-04
                        </content>
                </fild>
        </content>
</form>

is almost self explanatory, even as the form defintion should break,

"SampleForm","2007-05-03","Ubongo","Uawe","Hoho san  
mie","11","30","2007-01-01","2007-03-04"

is allmost not understandable.

Ruthard



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