FHIR Cross-Version Extensions package for FHIR R4 from FHIR R5 - Version 0.0.1-snapshot-2. See the Directory of published versions
| Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/version-algorithm | Version: 5.0.0 | |||
| Standards status: Informative | Maturity Level: 1 | Computable Name: VersionAlgorithm | ||
Indicates the mechanism used to compare versions to determine which is more current.
This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:
This case-sensitive code system http://hl7.org/fhir/version-algorithm defines the following codes:
| Code | Display | Definition | 
| semver | SemVer | Uses the semantic versioning scheme as defined in semver.org.  | 
| integer | Integer | Versions are integers and ordered numerically  | 
| alpha | Alphabetical | Simple alphabetic sort on a case-insensitive and accent-insensitive basis. (Sorting of different cases or accented versions of a character is indeterminate)  | 
| date | Date | Versions are expressed as an ISO date/time syntax (including syntaxes with only portions of a date)  | 
| natural | Natural | Sorted according to the algorithm defined here: naturalordersort.org  |