ProtoGen/HL7 -- An Implementation of HL7

Version 0.9

• Preface
• Introduction
  • A view on HL7
  • A view on this implementation
• From Text to the Database
  • The HL7 document
  • The Intermediate Table Format
  • Extracting tables
  • Extracting segment definitions
  • Generating Prolog predicates from tables
  • Extracting message definitions
• The HL7 database
  • Dependencies
  • Errors
  • Consistency check
  • The data item numbers
  • On the abstractness of abstract syntax in HL7
  • On trigger events
  • On the null value
• Generating C++ code
  • General concept
    • Names
    • States
    • Classes and types of objects
    • Repetition and optionality
    • Register
    • Methods
  • I/O methods
  • The code generator
    • Tables
• Integration into the system
• Bibliography