Hi Ronald,
Thanks very much for this helpful review.
I'm still not sure how to interpret this. The v2.6 text seems to
address "what can go in a field". If there's no corresponding text for
"what can go in a component/subcomponent" (is there? I don't have
access to this spec) then I think this wou
[sorry for the slow reply - was offline for bit]
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:29:09AM -0400, Bryan Tripp wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
>
> > I think there's a slight confusion regarding HL7 Null's: only a field
> > as a whole may be Null, not individual components. So, |""| says the
>
> Yes, I might be con
Hi Ronald,
> I think there's a slight confusion regarding HL7 Null's: only a field
> as a whole may be Null, not individual components. So, |""| says the
Yes, I might be confused about that. Can you give me a section reference?
Thanks,
Bryan
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Hi Bryan,
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:42:41AM -0400, Bryan Tripp wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanations. I think I understand where you're coming
> from but I have a few more questions ...
>
> > 1. Checking for Null currently is hard, because you actually have
> >to check all parts in a c
Hi Ronald,
Thanks for the explanations. I think I understand where you're coming
from but I have a few more questions ...
> 1. Checking for Null currently is hard, because you actually have
>to check all parts in a composite type. E.g. for a field of type
>XPN you have to check that XPN.
Hi Bryan,
thanks for your reply.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:26:19AM -0400, Bryan Tripp wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I understand the motivation for handling them specially.
> Nulls (as opposed to empty fields) are to indicate that corresponding
> data should be deleted from the receiving applicati
Hi Ronald,
I'm not sure I understand the motivation for handling them specially.
Nulls (as opposed to empty fields) are to indicate that corresponding
data should be deleted from the receiving application. This is
supported -- if a field contains "\"\"" then the application should
delete data -- b
We're trying to handle hl7 update messages, and these may contain hl7
null's (""). HAPI does not currently seem to handle them specially,
which leads to various problems, such as validation failures and
making it somewhat torturous to detect these nulls.
I've been trying to figure out what the be
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