# openEHR ADL/XML 1.5 Operational Template not far away

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**Created:** 2011-02-02 20:19 UTC
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## Post #1 by @thomas.beale

In the working build of the ADL 1.5 Workbench, we now have ADL Operational Templates working in a reasonable form. The example below is the test template found in the SVN knowledge2 repository [here](http://www.openehr.org/svn/knowledge2/TRUNK/archetypes/openEHR_examples/demographic_template/) (have a close look at the definition section - you can see archetype ids indicating where sub-part archetypes / templates have been included; also see the component_ontologies final section). Before long, we should have ADL2 style (dADL document) and XML format output. The ADL 1.5 form of the XML-schema needs to be finally determined, and I expect some XML experts in the community might want to have a go at improving the space efficiency. Our approach will be to upgrade the existing XSD so it at least has all the ADL 1.5 bits and pieces there, and put it on the wiki so the experts can work on it.

Anyway, the main goal is now in sight: routine production of ADL 1.5 based operational templates, which will then be post-processed into various things including:

- message schemas (XSDs)

- source code APIs / skeletons
- GUI forms or components

Obviously more work is required on the tooling to get here, and to also build out the tooling to an integrated ADL 1.5 authoring platform. However, the light at the end of the tunnel is now visible...

- thomas beale

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