Stream: cql
Topic: ELM description
Kevin Olbrich (Jan 30 2018 at 02:42):
@Bryn Rhodes is there a description / definition / spec for ELM around somewhere? I haven't been able to find anything on the wiki.
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 04:49):
@Kevin Olbrich, yes, there are UML and XSD versions, the XSD is here: https://github.com/cqframework/clinical_quality_language/tree/master/Src/cql-lm/schema/elm
Kevin Olbrich (Jan 30 2018 at 04:55):
@Bryn Rhodes Thanks, but I don't suppose there's a human readable description somewhere?
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 04:56):
Chapter 4 of the CQL specification covers the ELM, have you already looked at that?
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 04:57):
And the XSD has annotations for all the types and attributes, we try to keep it very well documented, so if you have a viewer like XMLspy or something it's quite a useful reference.
Kevin Olbrich (Jan 30 2018 at 05:00):
That chapter seems to be the thing I was looking for, thanks.... BTW, it would probably be a good idea to start adding disclaimers to the documentation that ELM has nothing to do with http://elm-lang.org/. That name conflict can be quite confusing to people coming into CQL for the first time.
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 05:01):
That's a great suggestion, would you mind submitting as an STU comment on CQL: http://www.hl7.org/dstucomments/showdetail.cfm?dstuid=211
Kevin Olbrich (Jan 30 2018 at 05:06):
done
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 05:14):
Thank you!
Matthew Dugal (Jan 30 2018 at 15:01):
I think my confusion related to the spec is that the link to the spec document from the eCQI site is described as a "product brief" which I did not interpret as the official spec.
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 17:24):
Yes, that's the landing page for all HL7 specifications, they have a Product Brief that describes the spec, but the actual download is a link at the bottom of the page.
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 17:24):
I see what you're saying though, that language doesn't make clear from the resource center that that's the actual specification.
Bryn Rhodes (Jan 30 2018 at 17:25):
I'll provide that feedback to the resource center.
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