[HAPI-devel] xml serialization producing <NTE/> tags

[Tom W. <tw...@su...>]

I have this simple method to serialize an HL7 message to XML for later processing with XSLT.

       public static String serializeHl7Xml(Message msg) {
              // Now serialize to XML
              // instantiate an XML parser
              XMLParser xmlParser = new DefaultXMLParser();
              // encode message in XML
              String messageXML = null;
              try {
                     messageXML = xmlParser.encode(msg);
              } catch (HL7Exception e) {
                     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                     e.printStackTrace();
              }
              // print XML-encoded message to standard out
              return messageXML;
       }

When I run it, I get an empty NTE tag after every OBX, which is messing up my XSLT. I can ignore it, but it seems like it shouldn't be producing <NTE/> when there is no NTE segment in the HL7 message.

Anyone else see this behavior?

-tom