Re: Decision on decimal

Hi Paul,

That's something that will need to be worked out by implementations, not
something we need to expose in the RDF.

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Paul A. Knapp <pknapp@pknapp.com> wrote:

> Hi Tony:
>
> We discussed this a bit on the ITS call today. One thing to be aware of is
> that not only will the RDF need to harvest the fractionDigits from the
> number of decimal digits in the instance, it will also need to examine the
> units, in the case of a Quantity or derivative, to harvest the exponent, if
> any, and apply that to the decimal value so that reasoners have the fully
> expressed value.
>
> For example a pseudo xml:
>
> <Instance_A>
>     <value = "1.0200"/>
>     <units = "10^4 ml/min"/>
> </Instance_A>
>
> <Instance_B>
>     <value = "1.0200"/>
>     <units = "10^3 ml/min"/>
> </Instance_B>
>
> The precision of the above examples are the same, but the values are
> different.
>
> Paul
>
> At 11:42 AM 2015-08-04, Anthony Mallia wrote:
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Here is where I think we landed today on
> decimal
>
> fhir:decimal rdf:type owl:Class ;
>              rdfs:subClassOf fhir:Element ,
>                              [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
>                                owl:onProperty fhir:fractionDigits ;
>                                owl:maxQualifiedCardinality
> "1"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ;
>                                owl:onDataRange xsd:nonNegativeInteger
>                              ] ,
>                              [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
>                                owl:onProperty fhir:fractionDigits ;
>                                owl:allValuesFrom xsd:nonNegativeInteger
>                              ] ,
>                              [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
>                                owl:onProperty fhir:value ;
>                                owl:maxQualifiedCardinality
> "1"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger ;
>                                owl:onDataRange xsd:decimal
>                              ] ,
>                              [ rdf:type owl:Restriction ;
>                                owl:onProperty fhir:value ;
>                                owl:allValuesFrom xsd:decimal
>                              ] ;
>
>              rdfs:comment "A rational number with defined precision" .
>
> Tony Mallia
>
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