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StructureDefinition for Narrative
{
"resourceType": "StructureDefinition",
"id": "Narrative",
"meta": {
"lastUpdated": "2018-04-03T12:05:46.262+10:00"
},
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"
},
"extension": [
{
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ballot-status",
"valueString": "Normative"
}
],
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative",
"name": "Narrative",
"status": "draft",
"date": "2018-04-03T12:05:46+10:00",
"publisher": "HL7 FHIR Standard",
"contact": [
{
"telecom": [
{
"system": "url",
"value": "http://hl7.org/fhir"
}
]
}
],
"description": "Base StructureDefinition for Narrative Type: A human-readable formatted text, including images.",
"fhirVersion": "3.3.0",
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"uri": "http://hl7.org/v3",
"name": "RIM Mapping"
}
],
"kind": "complex-type",
"abstract": false,
"type": "Narrative",
"baseDefinition": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element",
"derivation": "specialization",
"snapshot": {
"element": [
{
"id": "Narrative",
"path": "Narrative",
"short": "A human-readable formatted text, including images",
"definition": "A human-readable formatted text, including images.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"base": {
"path": "Narrative",
"min": 0,
"max": "*"
},
"condition": [
"ele-1"
],
"constraint": [
{
"key": "ele-1",
"severity": "error",
"human": "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children",
"expression": "hasValue() | (children().count() > id.count())",
"xpath": "@value|f:*|h:div",
"source": "Element"
}
],
"isModifier": false,
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "n/a"
},
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.id",
"path": "Narrative.id",
"representation": [
"xmlAttr"
],
"short": "xml:id (or equivalent in JSON)",
"definition": "Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"base": {
"path": "Element.id",
"min": 0,
"max": "1"
},
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
],
"isModifier": false,
"isSummary": false,
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "n/a"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.extension",
"path": "Narrative.extension",
"slicing": {
"discriminator": [
{
"type": "value",
"path": "url"
}
],
"description": "Extensions are always sliced by (at least) url",
"rules": "open"
},
"short": "Additional content defined by implementations",
"definition": "May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.",
"comment": "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
"alias": [
"extensions",
"user content"
],
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"base": {
"path": "Element.extension",
"min": 0,
"max": "*"
},
"type": [
{
"code": "Extension"
}
],
"isModifier": false,
"isSummary": false,
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "n/a"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.status",
"path": "Narrative.status",
"short": "generated | extensions | additional | empty",
"definition": "The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"base": {
"path": "Narrative.status",
"min": 1,
"max": "1"
},
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"isModifier": false,
"isSummary": false,
"binding": {
"extension": [
{
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-bindingName",
"valueString": "NarrativeStatus"
}
],
"strength": "required",
"description": "The status of a resource narrative",
"valueSetCanonical": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/narrative-status"
},
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.div",
"path": "Narrative.div",
"short": "Limited xhtml content",
"definition": "The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.",
"comment": "The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content SHALL not contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"base": {
"path": "Narrative.div",
"min": 1,
"max": "1"
},
"type": [
{
"code": "xhtml"
}
],
"constraint": [
{
"key": "txt-1",
"severity": "error",
"human": "The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributes",
"expression": "htmlchecks()",
"xpath": "not(descendant-or-self::*[not(local-name(.)=('a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'b', 'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'caption', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'dfn', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'li', 'ol', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'ul', 'var'))]) and not(descendant-or-self::*/@*[not(name(.)=('abbr', 'accesskey', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'bgcolor', 'border', 'cellhalign', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'cellvalign', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'cite', 'class', 'colspan', 'compact', 'coords', 'dir', 'frame', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'name', 'nowrap', 'rel', 'rev', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'span', 'src', 'start', 'style', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'title', 'type', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width'))])"
},
{
"key": "txt-2",
"severity": "error",
"human": "The narrative SHALL have some non-whitespace content",
"expression": "htmlchecks()",
"xpath": "descendant::text()[normalize-space(.)!=''] or descendant::h:img[@src]"
}
],
"isModifier": false,
"isSummary": false,
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
}
]
},
"differential": {
"element": [
{
"id": "Narrative",
"path": "Narrative",
"short": "A human-readable formatted text, including images",
"definition": "A human-readable formatted text, including images.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.status",
"path": "Narrative.status",
"short": "generated | extensions | additional | empty",
"definition": "The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"binding": {
"extension": [
{
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-bindingName",
"valueString": "NarrativeStatus"
}
],
"strength": "required",
"description": "The status of a resource narrative",
"valueSetCanonical": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/narrative-status"
},
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
},
{
"id": "Narrative.div",
"path": "Narrative.div",
"short": "Limited xhtml content",
"definition": "The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.",
"comment": "The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content SHALL not contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "xhtml"
}
],
"constraint": [
{
"key": "txt-1",
"severity": "error",
"human": "The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributes",
"expression": "htmlchecks()",
"xpath": "not(descendant-or-self::*[not(local-name(.)=('a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'b', 'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'caption', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'dfn', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'li', 'ol', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'ul', 'var'))]) and not(descendant-or-self::*/@*[not(name(.)=('abbr', 'accesskey', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'bgcolor', 'border', 'cellhalign', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'cellvalign', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'cite', 'class', 'colspan', 'compact', 'coords', 'dir', 'frame', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'name', 'nowrap', 'rel', 'rev', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'span', 'src', 'start', 'style', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'title', 'type', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width'))])"
},
{
"key": "txt-2",
"severity": "error",
"human": "The narrative SHALL have some non-whitespace content",
"expression": "htmlchecks()",
"xpath": "descendant::text()[normalize-space(.)!=''] or descendant::h:img[@src]"
}
],
"mapping": [
{
"identity": "rim",
"map": "N/A"
}
]
}
]
}
}
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.