On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:26, Richard Terry wrote: > HL7 is pretty simple if you look at the docs. It is just a matter of > understanding what the internal fields looked like. Its just tedious and > the docs are HUGE!!!
If somebody needs or wants the docs, I got them (unfortunately in print format only, so we would need to send by snail mail) HL7 is an ambiguous monstrosity lacking any kind of elegance. Writing a simple generic HL7 parser in Python is a matter of less than a hundred lines, but then taking care of all the possible permutations of rules (or lack thereof) becomes a code jungle very quickly. Horst _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
