Identical: comment(s) and remarks; Was Re: Preserving white space

Thanks Scott,
As near as I can
reconstruct it, about a year ago when I first started down the
path of attempting to unify the EDXL Family, I somehow got it
into my head that remarks were actually based on EDXLStringType.
Perhaps that was due to the fact that EDXLStringType is used
numerous times in EDXLSitRep-v1.0.xsd where remarks is also used
a few times.
Hence my concern with
preserving whitespace. It wasn't until this morning as I went
through my old materials that I figured that out. It was just
one of those things that stuck in my head. My apologies to all.
However, it does leave
us with two elements that are essentially identical in structure
and purpose. This begs the question of whether we should settle
on one or explicitly make a difference between comment(s) and
remarks.
Cheers,
Rex
On 1/16/2018 10:06 PM, Scott M.
Robertson wrote:
Since I wasn't involved at the time, I am unclear on why there is a concern about preserving white space in comment(s) and remarks.  By default, xs:string (the underlying basis for the comment and remarks elements in HAVE) preserve white space.  Adding the whiteSpace attribute as  preserve  to xs:string doesn't do much as that is the default value for whiteSpace in xs:string.  There are XML data types which do compact white space to different degrees:
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xs:token - used by EDXLStringType and, by extension, ParameterValueType in extension.parameter.value;
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xs:normalizedString - used extensively in xPIL, xNL, and xAL data types;
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and other xs: data types which I did not find in the schema set.  Maybe I am missing the point.  Is there a concern that various comments will be stripped of white space?  In HAVE, at least, that does not appear to be the case.

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Scott M Robertson, PharmD, RPh, FHL7 Principal Technology Consultant  Kaiser Permanente KP Health IT Strategy & Policy  Pasadena / Torrance, CA 310-200-0231 (office)

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