Release 5 Ballot

This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v5.0.0-ballot: FHIR R5 Ballot Preview). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Example StructureDefinition/questionnaire-definitionBased (XML)

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Raw XML (canonical form + also see XML Format Specification)

DefinitionBased

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<StructureDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="questionnaire-definitionBased"/> 
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="fhir"/> 
  </extension> 
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="1"/> 
  </extension> 
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/questionnaire-definitionBased"/> 
  <identifier> 
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/> 
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.5.1245"/> 
  </identifier> 
  <version value="5.0.0-ballot"/> 
  <name value="DefinitionBased"/> 
  <title value="Definition-based?"/> 
  <status value="draft"/> 
  <experimental value="false"/> 
  <date value="2021-03-23"/> 
  <publisher value="HL7"/> 
  <contact> 
    <telecom> 
      <system value="url"/> 
      <value value="http://www.hl7.org"/> 
    </telecom> 
  </contact> 
  <description value="If true, indicates that the Questionnaire relies on metadata from the ElementDefinitions
   referenced by item.definition and that rendering or validating the Questionnaire is likely
   to be unsafe if the system isn't capable of resolving the definition and using the metadata
   found there."/> 
  <fhirVersion value="5.0.0"/> 
  <mapping> 
    <identity value="rim"/> 
    <uri value="http://hl7.org/v3"/> 
    <name value="RIM Mapping"/> 
  </mapping> 
  <kind value="complex-type"/> 
  <abstract value="false"/> 
  <context> 
    <type value="element"/> 
    <expression value="Questionnaire"/> 
  </context> 
  <type value="Extension"/> 
  <baseDefinition value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension"/> 
  <derivation value="constraint"/> 
  <snapshot> 
    <element id="Extension">
      <path value="Extension"/> 
      <short value="Base Type for answer"/> 
      <definition value="This identifies the underlying type in a profile, when a questionnaire is generated from
       a profile."/> 
      <comment value="If true, indicates that the Questionnaire relies on metadata from the ElementDefinitions
       referenced by item.definition and that rendering or validating the Questionnaire is likely
       to be unsafe if the system isn't capable of resolving the definition and using the metadata
       found there."/> 
      <min value="0"/> 
      <max value="1"/> 
      <base> 
        <path value="Extension"/> 
        <min value="0"/> 
        <max value="*"/> 
      </base> 
      <constraint> 
        <key value="ele-1"/> 
        <severity value="error"/> 
        <human value="All FHIR elements must have a @value or children"/> 
        <expression value="hasValue() or (children().count() &gt; id.count())"/> 
        <xpath value="@value|f:*|h:div"/> 
        <source value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"/> 
      </constraint> 
      <constraint> 
        <key value="ext-1"/> 
        <severity value="error"/> 
        <human value="Must have either extensions or value[x], not both"/> 
        <expression value="extension.exists() != value.exists()"/> 
        <xpath value="exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')])"/> 
        <source value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension"/> 
      </constraint> 
      <isModifier value="false"/> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.id">
      <path value="Extension.id"/> 
      <representation value="xmlAttr"/> 
      <short value="Unique id for inter-element referencing"/> 
      <definition value="Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any
       string value that does not contain spaces."/> 
      <min value="0"/> 
      <max value="1"/> 
      <base> 
        <path value="Element.id"/> 
        <min value="0"/> 
        <max value="1"/> 
      </base> 
      <type> 
        <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type">
          <valueUrl value="id"/> 
        </extension> 
        <code value="http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String"/> 
      </type> 
      <isModifier value="false"/> 
      <isSummary value="false"/> 
      <mapping> 
        <identity value="rim"/> 
        <map value="n/a"/> 
      </mapping> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.extension">
      <path value="Extension.extension"/> 
      <slicing> 
        <discriminator> 
          <type value="value"/> 
          <path value="url"/> 
        </discriminator> 
        <description value="Extensions are always sliced by (at least) url"/> 
        <rules value="open"/> 
      </slicing> 
      <short value="Extension"/> 
      <definition value="An Extension"/> 
      <min value="0"/> 
      <max value="0"/> 
      <base> 
        <path value="Element.extension"/> 
        <min value="0"/> 
        <max value="*"/> 
      </base> 
      <type> 
        <code value="Extension"/> 
      </type> 
      <constraint> 
        <key value="ele-1"/> 
        <severity value="error"/> 
        <human value="All FHIR elements must have a @value or children"/> 
        <expression value="hasValue() or (children().count() &gt; id.count())"/> 
        <xpath value="@value|f:*|h:div"/> 
        <source value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"/> 
      </constraint> 
      <constraint> 
        <key value="ext-1"/> 
        <severity value="error"/> 
        <human value="Must have either extensions or value[x], not both"/> 
        <expression value="extension.exists() != value.exists()"/> 
        <xpath value="exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), &quot;value&quot;)])"/> 
        <source value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension"/> 
      </constraint> 
      <isModifier value="false"/> 
      <isSummary value="false"/> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.url">
      <path value="Extension.url"/> 
      <representation value="xmlAttr"/> 
      <short value="identifies the meaning of the extension"/> 
      <definition value="Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL."/> 
      <comment value="The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the
       extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification.
       The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension."/> 
      <min value="1"/> 
      <max value="1"/> 
      <base> 
        <path value="Extension.url"/> 
        <min value="1"/> 
        <max value="1"/> 
      </base> 
      <type> 
        <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type">
          <valueUrl value="uri"/> 
        </extension> 
        <code value="http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String"/> 
      </type> 
      <fixedUri value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/questionnaire-definitionBased"/> 
      <isModifier value="false"/> 
      <isSummary value="false"/> 
      <mapping> 
        <identity value="rim"/> 
        <map value="N/A"/> 
      </mapping> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.value[x]">
      <path value="Extension.value[x]"/> 
      <short value="Value of extension"/> 
      <definition value="Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see [Extensibility](extensi
      bility.html) for a list)."/> 
      <min value="1"/> 
      <max value="1"/> 
      <base> 
        <path value="Extension.value[x]"/> 
        <min value="0"/> 
        <max value="1"/> 
      </base> 
      <type> 
        <code value="boolean"/> 
      </type> 
      <constraint> 
        <key value="ele-1"/> 
        <severity value="error"/> 
        <human value="All FHIR elements must have a @value or children"/> 
        <expression value="hasValue() or (children().count() &gt; id.count())"/> 
        <xpath value="@value|f:*|h:div"/> 
        <source value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"/> 
      </constraint> 
      <isModifier value="false"/> 
      <isSummary value="false"/> 
      <mapping> 
        <identity value="rim"/> 
        <map value="N/A"/> 
      </mapping> 
    </element> 
  </snapshot> 
  <differential> 
    <element id="Extension">
      <path value="Extension"/> 
      <short value="Base Type for answer"/> 
      <definition value="This identifies the underlying type in a profile, when a questionnaire is generated from
       a profile."/> 
      <comment value="If true, indicates that the Questionnaire relies on metadata from the ElementDefinitions
       referenced by item.definition and that rendering or validating the Questionnaire is likely
       to be unsafe if the system isn't capable of resolving the definition and using the metadata
       found there."/> 
      <requirements value="Allows Questionnaires to be defined using definitions and to be safely distinguished from
       other Questionnaires."/> 
      <min value="0"/> 
      <max value="1"/> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.extension">
      <path value="Extension.extension"/> 
      <max value="0"/> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.url">
      <path value="Extension.url"/> 
      <fixedUri value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/questionnaire-definitionBased"/> 
    </element> 
    <element id="Extension.value[x]">
      <path value="Extension.value[x]"/> 
      <min value="1"/> 
      <type> 
        <code value="boolean"/> 
      </type> 
    </element> 
  </differential> 
</StructureDefinition> 

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.