ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.primitive
Class AbstractTextPrimitive

java.lang.Object
  ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.AbstractType
      ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.AbstractPrimitive
          ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.primitive.AbstractTextPrimitive

All Implemented Interfaces:

Primitive, Type, Serializable

public abstract class AbstractTextPrimitive
extends AbstractPrimitive

Base class for a textual datatype such as FT, TX, ST.

Author:

James Agnew

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

AbstractTextPrimitive(Message theMessage)
Constructor

Method Summary

String

getValueAsHtml() Returns the value of this type with HL7 defined formatting codes replaced by their HTML equivalent.

Methods inherited from class ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.AbstractPrimitive

clear, encode, getValue, parse, setValue, toString

Methods inherited from class ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.AbstractType

getExtraComponents, getMessage, getName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface ca.uhn.hl7v2.model.Type

getExtraComponents, getMessage, getName

Constructor Detail

AbstractTextPrimitive

public AbstractTextPrimitive(Message theMessage)

Constructor

Method Detail

getValueAsHtml

public String getValueAsHtml()

Returns the value of this type with HL7 defined formatting codes replaced by their HTML equivalent.

For example, if this type contained the string:

 ABC \.ce\MIDDLE\.br\
 

This would be returned as:

 ABC <center>MIDDLE<center><br>
 

The following codes are handled (note that contrary to the HL7 specification, codes are interpreted in a case-insensitive manner):

• \.br\ (converted to <br>)
• \.ce\ (converted to <center>)
• \.sk\ (converted to &nbsp;)
• \.sp\ (converted to <br> and then multiple &nbsp;)
• \.sp ###\ (converted to multiple <br> and then multiple &nbsp;)
• \.fi\ (cancels \.nf\)
• \.nf\ (converted to <nobr> ... </nobr> around each line)
• \.in ###\ (converted to <div style="margin-left: ###em;"> ... </div> around each line)
• \.ti ###\ (treated the same as \.in ###\ but only affects the current line, and the numeric value is added to the value provided by \.in ###\. See section 2.7 of the HL7 specification for more details.)
• \H\ (converted to <b>)
• \N\ (converted to </b>)
• Ampersands (&) are converted to their HTML equivalent (&amp;)
• Chars over ASCII 160 are HTML encoded (e.g. &#199;)

Note that the returned value from this method is an HTML snippet, not a complete HTML document.