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FHIR Infrastructure Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative |
Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)
type-must-support
{ "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition", "id" : "elementdefinition-type-must-support", "extension" : [{ "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg", "valueCode" : "fhir" }, { "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm", "valueInteger" : 1 }], "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-type-must-support", "version" : "4.6.0", "name" : "type-must-support", "status" : "draft", "date" : "2015-02-28", "publisher" : "Health Level Seven, Inc. - FHIR Core WG", "contact" : [{ "telecom" : [{ "system" : "url", "value" : "http://hl7.org/special/committees/FHIR" }] }], "description" : "If true indicates that the specified type, profile or targetProfile must be supported by implementations.", "fhirVersion" : "4.6.0", "mapping" : [{ "identity" : "rim", "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3", "name" : "RIM Mapping" }], "kind" : "complex-type", "abstract" : false, "context" : [{ "type" : "element", "expression" : "ElementDefinition.type" }, { "type" : "element", "expression" : "ElementDefinition.type.profile" }, { "type" : "element", "expression" : "ElementDefinition.type.targetProfile" }], "type" : "Extension", "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension", "derivation" : "constraint", "snapshot" : { "element" : [{ "id" : "Extension", "path" : "Extension", "short" : "The specified type/profile/target must be supported by implementations", "definition" : "If true indicates that the specified type, profile or targetProfile must be supported by implementations.", "comment" : "An element may be labelled as must support. This extension clarifies which types/profiles/targetProfiles are must-support. It has no meaning if the element itself is not must-support. If the element is labelled must-support, and none of the options are labelled as must support, then an application must support at least one of the possible options, but is not required to support all of them.", "min" : 0, "max" : "1", "base" : { "path" : "Extension", "min" : 0, "max" : "*" }, "constraint" : [{ "key" : "ele-1", "severity" : "error", "human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children", "expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())", "xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div", "source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element" }, { "key" : "ext-1", "severity" : "error", "human" : "Must have either extensions or value[x], not both", "expression" : "extension.exists() != value.exists()", "xpath" : "exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')])", "source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension" }], "isModifier" : false }, { "id" : "Extension.id", "path" : "Extension.id", "representation" : ["xmlAttr"], "short" : "Unique id for inter-element referencing", "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" : [{ "extension" : [{ "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type", "valueUri" : "string" }], "code" : "http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String" }], "isModifier" : false, "isSummary" : false, "mapping" : [{ "identity" : "rim", "map" : "n/a" }] }, { "id" : "Extension.extension", "path" : "Extension.extension", "slicing" : { "discriminator" : [{ "type" : "value", "path" : "url" }], "description" : "Extensions are always sliced by (at least) url", "rules" : "open" }, "short" : "Extension", "definition" : "An Extension", "min" : 0, "max" : "0", "base" : { "path" : "Element.extension", "min" : 0, "max" : "*" }, "type" : [{ "code" : "Extension" }], "constraint" : [{ "key" : "ele-1", "severity" : "error", "human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children", "expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())", "xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div", "source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element" }, { "key" : "ext-1", "severity" : "error", "human" : "Must have either extensions or value[x], not both", "expression" : "extension.exists() != value.exists()", "xpath" : "exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), \"value\")])", "source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension" }], "isModifier" : false, "isSummary" : false }, { "id" : "Extension.url", "path" : "Extension.url", "representation" : ["xmlAttr"], "short" : "identifies the meaning of the extension", "definition" : "Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.", "comment" : "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" : 1, "max" : "1", "base" : { "path" : "Extension.url", "min" : 1, "max" : "1" }, "type" : [{ "extension" : [{ "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type", "valueUri" : "uri" }], "code" : "http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String" }], "fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-type-must-support", "isModifier" : false, "isSummary" : false, "mapping" : [{ "identity" : "rim", "map" : "N/A" }] }, { "id" : "Extension.value[x]", "path" : "Extension.value[x]", "short" : "Value of extension", "definition" : "Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see [Extensibility](extensibility.html) for a list).", "min" : 1, "max" : "1", "base" : { "path" : "Extension.value[x]", "min" : 0, "max" : "1" }, "type" : [{ "code" : "boolean" }], "constraint" : [{ "key" : "ele-1", "severity" : "error", "human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children", "expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())", "xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div", "source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element" }], "isModifier" : false, "isSummary" : false, "mapping" : [{ "identity" : "rim", "map" : "N/A" }] }] }, "differential" : { "element" : [{ "id" : "Extension", "path" : "Extension", "short" : "The specified type/profile/target must be supported by implementations", "definition" : "If true indicates that the specified type, profile or targetProfile must be supported by implementations.", "comment" : "An element may be labelled as must support. This extension clarifies which types/profiles/targetProfiles are must-support. It has no meaning if the element itself is not must-support. If the element is labelled must-support, and none of the options are labelled as must support, then an application must support at least one of the possible options, but is not required to support all of them.", "min" : 0, "max" : "1" }, { "id" : "Extension.extension", "path" : "Extension.extension", "max" : "0" }, { "id" : "Extension.url", "path" : "Extension.url", "fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-type-must-support" }, { "id" : "Extension.value[x]", "path" : "Extension.value[x]", "min" : 1, "type" : [{ "code" : "boolean" }] }] } }
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.