The EasyHL7 system makes extensive use of XML in working with HL7 files.  It is necessary for programmers using the system to familiarize themselves with using and manipulating XML.  There are many excellent reference books on the subject as well as third party products and software that also provide references.  That being said, we have included the QSXML object as a public interface in the EHL7 Runtime DLL.

This object is a very basic class wrapper object for the MSXML DOM (Document Object Model) and provides an easy to use interface to that object to allow rapid development and (if necessary) provide a starting point for developers new to XML programming.  Examples of all of the pertinent XML structures have been included in the API documentation. It is not required that you use the QSXML object to create or manipulate the XML that is returned by EasyHL7 or taken as a parameter to a method.

In the EHL7Message object the MSHObject property and the Segment object that is returned by AddSegment() and GetSegment() and taken as a parameter in SetFieldValue() and GetFieldValue() are actually objects of type "MSXML2.IXMLDOMNODE" and you may access all of their underlying properties and methods if needed.

Properties and Methods

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