title: considering using NHapi
body: <p>I am considering using NHapi in some HL7 related projects. Usually when I decide to use any open source library in a project, I have two criteria:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>the broadness of the user base.</li>
  <li>the quality of support.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Looking at the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhapi/forums" rel="nofollow">NHapi forum on SourceForge</a>, it does not seem to fulfill any of the above two criteria. </p>
  
  <p>The other options are either to buy a commercial product or to write a parser. </p>
  
  <p>Anyone has any suggestion or thoughts of using NHapi ?</p>