Re: [Gnumed-devel] HL7 data sample for you.

[Horst Herb]

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