"The Version 3 Normative Edition 2009 is now available! The Version3 Normative Edition represents all of the Version 3 Standards and Documents that have achieved normative status as an American National Standard (ANS), have achieved status as an HL7 draft standard for trial use (DSTU), or have been published as HL7 informative documents."

"Like the Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, the 2009 Normative Edition is a two-CD set. Disk 1 includes the standards publication, the HTML representation of the standards with linked Table Views, Excel Views and Schemas. Disk 2 contains the processable files and tools used to build the Normative Edition; these tools will benefit an implementer of the Version 3 standards and can be manipulated with software and a set of HL7-sponsored tools that create and manipulate those files."

"As a part of the assembly of each edition, all dependencies for each artifact in the Edition have been documented and validated. This validation is verification that the artifact that satisfies a particular dependency is also present in the Edition. The results of the analysis are included in the Normative Edition. The contents and validity of this Normative Edition are the result of the hard work of many of our HL7 members. We congratulate all who contributed in helping to make this the most coherent and useful Normative Edition yet!" [Don Lloyd, HL7 Technical Publications Manager]