[HAPI-devel] current state of HL7.org conformance profiles

[Jim K. <ji...@ho...>]

Hey All-

I was browsing through the mailing list archives today looking for some 
pointers on using validation and the profile capabilities in hapi.  From 
what I read, the infrastructure is there to conformance test messages, but 
the profiles needed to drive the conformance testing are not a part of the 
hapi distribution.

In one of Bryan's notes, he linked to 
http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/conf/conformance.html which indicated that the 
profiles used in the validation infrastructure come from the folks at 
hl.org.  The previous link contained a link to the message profile library 
instructions on hl7.org:
http://www.hl7.org/Library/Committees/Conf/HL7v2GlobalMessageProfileLibraryjan2003V3.pdf

So, hopefully, I followed the link to the library and found that it led to 
the web equivalent of a dusty, empty old room.  I searched the library for 
profiles and the site was only able to produce four (two ACKs, two ADTs).  
Does anyone know if that's all there is?  Without a complete set of profiles 
it seems the HAPI validator is pretty much like a car without gas.  If it 
turns out we have to produce the profile documents by hand, how is that any 
better than using the XSD and a SAX parser to validate messages before 
handing them over to hapi?  would it be possible to use the XSD itself to 
drive the hapi validator?

Thanks.