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Hey guys,

I work in a hospital supporting IT applications and we use HL7 file standard to send and receive electronic health information.

I'm having a hard time finding a good HL7 segment parser. I love TextPad and would love to use this tool to intelligenty edit HL7 files. You know, TextPad could recognize HL7 tags the way it recognizes HTML tags.

Is this the HL7 you're talking about?

I don't know hl7 myself, but it looks like plain xml, at least the 3.x version *). It should be straightforward to create a custom syntax file, based on the xml syntax, that includes hl7 specific keywords.
You could also consider using a dedicated xml editor that's able to use the associated xml schema.

*) The 2.x version looks a little less readable, and I doubt TP can help you out here.