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Well you might be wrong, but EDI in general and HL7 specifically allow 3 levels of "fields in fields in field". As long as your parser copes, and as long as yo
by bruce511 3y ago
Well you might be wrong, but EDI in general and HL7 specifically allow 3 levels of "fields in fields in field".
As long as your parser copes, and as long as you have appropriate structures to import into, its no big deal.
- iainmerrick 3y agoSo now when I'm exporting data I need to know what nesting level it's going to live at so I can generate the correct separators? I really think that might be the worst idea I've heard for a while!
- bruce511 3y agoIt's not toooo bad :) But it's very much a "thing" in the real word. It's called EDI, and it's been around for a long time.