Message parsing problem

[norph]

Hi

We encounter what seems to be a parsing error for the messages we been receiving. Below is a sample message:

MSH|^~\&|CPSS||iPHARM|iPHARM|20060713003438||ORM^O 01|TUCP0607130034380001|P|2.3||||||||
PID||D12345636A|||PATIENT NAME||19680617|M||||||||||||||||||||||
PV1||O|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||
ORC|NW|894373|||||||20060713003400|||11106F|WDSC|| |||||
RXO|NS^cephalexin||||||||||||||||||||||
RXR|||||
ZCO||||OP
ZXO|3|W2||20060713003437|||1|500MG|||
RXO|0004-28-168-E^synflex||||TA||||||||||||||||||
RXR|||||
ZCO||||OP
ZXO|2|W2||20060713003437|||2|275MG|||
RXO|0004-56-018-E^famotidine||||TA||||||||||||||||||
RXR|||||
ZCO||||OP
ZXO|2|W2||20060713003437|||3|20MG|||

Using hl7 inspector (http://www.elomagic.de/index.php?page=hl7), The parsed message shows all RXO (and RXR, ZCO, ZXO) are on the same level, but when mirth parses the message. The first RXO component is one level above the other RXO components. This causes a problem when we are trying to obtain the RXO data. Is this a HL7 message template problem or something wrong with the library? Thanks

[chrisl]

Re: Message parsing problem

I wouldn't necessarily classify this as an error, but a different way of parsing the messages. We will look into the HAPI libraries and see how this situation is handled and what the options are.

In terms of getting the RXO data, you can use this syntax:

for (rxo in msg..RXO){
var test = rxo['RXO.1']
}

the syntax msg..RXO will get all RXO segments in the message in order, no matter which level they occur.