/target-profiles

Collaboration on creating and testing XQuery-based target profiles to run against CCDA documents.

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target-profiles

Collaboration on creating and testing XQuery-based target profiles to run against CCDA documents. This respository is meant to capture work and documentation on the implementation and challenges on creating Target Profiles against CCDA documents.

p2tconsortium

https://sites.google.com/site/p2tconsortium/

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About This Repository

This project is a place to demonstrate a library of XQuery functions.

The library is found in the file:

/resources/library.xq

To show how the target profile can be constructed, leveraging the functions declared in the XQuery library, the project utilizes unit tests written for the Clojure programming language.

An example target profile that the tests will utilize is found in:

/resources/lmrb.xq

Getting started with the unit tests

  1. Clone this github repo:
$ git clone git@github.com:p2tconsortium/target-profiles.git
  1. We have forked the sample_ccdas repository from Boston Children's Hospital and are including that fork as a git submodule. After cloning the target-profiles project, you will need to execute the following commands as well:
$ cd target-profiles
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

  1. We leverage the popular build tool, Leiningen to manage dependencies and run the tests. Follow the Installation instructions

  2. Execute the tests! You should see a result similar to:

$ lein midje :autotest

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