Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: some HL7 VB Code

[Tim Churches]

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> On Wed Mar  2  6:46 , Richard Terry <address@hidden> sent:
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> > Take it as is for the logic, years old, never implemented, 
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> thanks, should keep me out of mischief for a while.
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> (seems I'm a mischief magnet lately).
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There is also an example of an HL7 2.x parser written in Python in the 
NetEpi-PHREDDS package available at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123700

Much of the code in that relates to listening for and responding to HL7 
messages sent by  the (insecure) MLLP protocol, but there is a parser 
for specific message types in there as well which might give you some 
ideas. Unfortunately due to license incompatibilities between the 
Mozilla Public License and the GPL, you can't cut-and-paste code from 
NetEpi-PHREDDS into GnuMed, but you can certainly borrow the ideas and 
overall approach. However, as Richard notes, HL7 parsing is not a hugely 
difficult problem, but there are several ways to skin the cat.

Tim C