This is Info file ProtoGen.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.64 from the input file ProtoGen.texi. This text describes the implementation of HL7 that is being done at the Universitätsklinikum Steglitz in Berlin. It is meant as a report about the work in general as well as a manual for the software that is about to be developed. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 Gunther Schadow  Indirect: ProtoGen.info-1: 1055 ProtoGen.info-2: 50349  Tag Table: (Indirect) Node: Top1055 Node: Introduction6740 Node: A view on HL77842 Node: A view on this implementation10785 Node: From Text to the Database15797 Node: The HL7 document17238 Node: The Intermediate Table Format21808 Node: Extracting tables27254 Node: Extracting segment definitions28437 Node: Generating Prolog predicates from tables30967 Node: Extracting message definitions33222 Node: The HL7 database37242 Node: Dependencies38889 Node: Errors46677 Node: Consistency check50349 Node: The data item numbers56852 Node: On the abstractness of abstract syntax in HL758280 Node: On trigger events65093 Node: On the null value66443 Node: Generating C++ code70015 Node: General concept70733 Node: Names73450 Node: States76343 Node: Class and type78222 Node: Repetition and optionality79690 Node: Register81099 Node: Methods81872 Node: I/O methods83715 Node: The code generator85969 Node: Tables87167 Node: Integration into the system88724 Node: Bibliography89918  End Tag Table