I have been developing a command line version of the ADL workbench in the background, using all the same compiler code of course. It has not yet been released, but here is some documentation.
I would be interested to know what the broader interest in such a tool would be and what people would like it to do. Examples of requirements might be:
generate operational templates (OPTs)
extract paths from archetypes
validate an entire repository of archetypes and generate a report.
It does some of these already and could be made to do many more such things.
Throughout my personal work with Archetypes & Templates i have found the level of detail of the visualisation offered by the CKM too abstract. On the other hand, looking into the XML is like trying to read the Matrix.
Attached is a graphviz view of some archetype that is the output of a small tool i wrote in Python to do just that (Reads XML writes dot, graphviz then handles the layout). Ideally, the constraints are expanded at the leafs but sometimes this can lead to many long nodes so i have deactivated that.
I have found such a view very convenient when i am trying to get the bigger picture of a data structure or when i want to lookup the path of a specific leaf down an Archetype tree i know nothing about.
If anyone else is also finding this a useful "admin" (or developer's) functionality to have, i would be glad to help incorporating it to the command-line utility and also tune the level of information that is depicted on the output.
All the best
Athanasios Anastasiou
P.S. I vaguely remember trying to do this as an XSL transformation as well but dropped it because it was taking too long and i also wanted to do more things with the tree than just transforming it anyway. I will see if there is something useful on that end too because then it can even be packaged to a very simple individual script.
thanks for providing another way of interacting with the openEHR tooling.
If I may hijack this posting: I think it would be helpful if the descriptions on http://www.openehr.org/downloads/modellingtools
could make a little bit more clearer what AWB does that AE does not
and vice versa.
Also, such a description would be welcome too on the download page of
AWB (AE does already include the description at the top of its
download page).
Finally, the link to the download page of the command line compiler
links to that of the AWB.
Thank you for your work on this tool.
A powerful path extraction interface would be very useful, especially for returning leaf paths. That would be very handy.
