THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. DESCRIPTION: This document describes the Auriga HL7 library which implements HL7 structures of the version 2.x (version 2.4 by default, please see www.hl7.org). The library uses C++ 0x standards; the compiler should support them to use this library. The howto section is placed in the end of this document. The library provides implementation of the following features: - HL7 Structures of the version 2.x (2.4 by default) - Conversion the HL7 structures to the HL7 string (pipe). - Conversion a pipe string into HL7 structure. - Encoding / decoding / validating HL7 types - MLLP HL7 protocol support The source code of the library has the following structures: `-- src |-- 2.4 | |-- datatype | |-- message | |-- segment | `-- WIN |-- common |-- test |-- examples `-- thirdparty - src - this is the top directory. - 2.4 - this directory contains description of the HL7 structures of the 2.4 version. - datatype - HL7 data types - message - HL7 messages - segment - HL7 segments - 2.4 / WIN - static library project for Windows - common - it contains common code: base classes and utils that are not used thirdparty code base. - test - source code of the tests. tests - tests for core objects socket_test - tests for HL7Socket, HL7SocketServer and HL7MLLP objects verify_test - tests for HL7 data verification functions WIN - tests compilation solution for Windows - examples - source code of the examples hello - core functions example client - HL7MLLP client example with validation and encoding server - HL7SocketServer example with validation and encoding WIN - examples compilation solution for Windows - thirdparty - thirdparty code. The source code is provided as an Eclipse and MS VS 2013 projects which include these directories. The projects run test applications. Please see HOWTO file for build instructions and example usage.