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http://forums.asp.net/p/1351148/2759560.aspx#2759560

Hi!

Can any one help me out in extracting the details of a resume.

I am using the logic - (1) First convert the resume file (txt,doc,html,pdf. etc) into XML

(2) Then Convert the XML into HR-XML, which is now easy to parse.

I was able to convert the .txt file into XML with VB.NET code successfully! But the limitation is that the txt file must be delimited (e.g. comma ,)

Can any one tell me, how to convert the doc/pdf file into XML as in the Resume/CV we are not bound with COMMA delimiters

waiting 4 reply...

Thanx & regards

SAMEER

Chris,

A few thoughts here:

• This is exactly the type of detailed feedback we need informing HR standards. Unfortunately, I no longer am working for HR-XML, so this is best communicated to them.
• Your use case does make me wonder about whether RaceCode and EthnicityCode ought to be repeatable where they are used. Both of these rely on an HR-XML extension of "CodeType," which is a harmonized core component. I think this handles your situation very well. Consider the following:
  

        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Group" name="Asian">R2</EthnicityCode>
        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Subclass" name="Laotian">2041-2"</EthnicityCode>
  

  or alternatively:

        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Group">R2</EthnicityCode>
        <EthnicityCode listID="Ethnic Subclass">2041-2"</EthnicityCode>
  

You could do the above by making EthnicityCode repeatable (it isn't currently). Another way to go would be to add an explicit element for such sub-classifications.

I'm sure you know as well as I that HR-XML's library doesn't currently cover an Health Care Claim Payment/Advice (835). I haven't kept up with ANSI X12N, but I'm guessing they have not yet taken up an XML representation of the 835?

BTW - if you don't mind, I'd like to post a version of this in the HRInterop forum. I'll remove your name/company affiliation.

Chuck

Chris wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Thank you for replying so quickly. I was able to find the 3.0 draft on
> the HR-XML site, and was able to locate the Ethnicity and Race codes on
> the list of Global Elements.
>
> Although it's probably taboo to discuss other file formats with you, I
> thought I'd provide a little background on the reason for my inquiry.
>
> The HIPAA 835 (version 5010) changes are really just more specifically

This is news way after the fact, but is "news to me" since I just came across this morning! I had heard that ARTS XML, the standards organization for retail industry was considering closer alignment with the OAGIS architecture. I looks like this conversation has begun in earnest:
http://tinyurl.com/5dz6md

At the recently concluded HR-XML Partnering and Integration Summit there was a presentation by a company that had opportunistically borrowed from HR-XML and ARTs in putting together a time-card integration. It will be nice when this can be done through having a common OAGIS architecture.