Patent ID: 7761481

Claim:
A computer implemented system that facilitates generating value-added extensible markup language schema definitions (VAXs) from flat-file data in a relational database, comprising: a relational database that stores structural data that is formatted according to Health Level 7 standards in a plurality of data tables in a computer memory; a schema generator that receives the structural data from the relational database and generates a VAX from the structural data, the VAX comprising a metadata extensible markup language schema that describes the structural data and a business rule extensible markup language schema that describes trigger events related to the structural data, wherein the schema generator generates the VAX by parsing the structural data according to delimiters defined in the structural data and regrouping the data into a hierarchical structure that is included in the VAX, the hierarchical structure comprising segments, fields, components, and sub-components, respectively, the schema generator further receiving a message that is formatted according to the Health Level 7 standards, wherein the schema generator uses the VAX to transform the message into a plurality of different output messages such that each output message is customized using business rules from the business rule extensible markup language schema, the business rules defining a trigger event based on the contents of the received message and a list of segments that are to be included within the output message based on the trigger event, the segments being defined in the metadata extensible markup language schema; and a processor that executes the schema generator.