Introduction
UPDATE APRIL 2017: We no longer by maintaining this web service option. If you need access to the validation, please use the web submission version or download the schematron packages. Thank you.In addition to an on-line HTML formed-based submission page, the CDA Guideline Validation Tool is also available as a SOAP-based Web Service. By following the description of the web service contained in the WSDL, applications will be able to automatically query the service for validation of CDA-based documents.
The web service currently implements two functions:
- The first is "getAvailableValidations". This function takes no arguments and will return a list of CDA-based document specifications that our tool will currently check against. See the WSDL (below) for specifics on the structure of the response.
- The second is "validateDocument" and takes two arguments: the type of document (from the list of available validations) to check and the document itself. See the WSDL (below) for specifics on the input and the structure of the response.
WSDL
Sample Client
NIST has developed a very simple Java-based web service client as a demonstration of the CDA Validation Tool Web Service. This software requires Java 2 SDK 1.5 or later. The source code is available as part of the download package.
- cdaValidateClient.tar.gz (2.5 MB)
Disclaimer
NOTICE OF SOFTWARE ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND REDISTRIBUTION
The software provided herein is released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg MD 20899, USA. The software presented here is intended to be utilized for research purposes only and bear no warranty, either express or implied. NIST does not assume legal liability nor responsibility for a USER's use of a NIST-derived software product or the results of such use.
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