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Alternative names
<ExtensionDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="valueset-otherName"/> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-otherName"/> <name value="Alternative names"/> <publisher value="HL7"/> <description value="Human readable names for the valueset."/> <status value="draft"/> <date value="2015-02-23T09:07:27+11:00"/> <contextType value="resource"/> <context value="ValueSet"/> <element> <path value="Extension"/> <short value="Alternative names"/> <definition value="Human readable names for the valueset."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="*"/> </element> <element> <path value="Extension.name"/> <short value="Human readable, short and specific"/> <definition value="This name is intended to be human readable, short and as specific as possible and to convey the purpose of the value set. It is considered to be the name of the value set."/> <comments value="This need not be unique. However some use cases require uniqueness within a namespace and therefore best practice would be to make the name unique."/> <min value="1"/> <max value="1"/> <type> <code value="string"/> </type> </element> <element> <path value="Extension.preferred"/> <short value="Which name is preferred for this language"/> <definition value="Flag that this Name in this Name Language is the preferred human-readable signifier in this language."/> <comments value="There may be multiple human readable names in a given language, and this flag indicates which of them is preferred for the given language."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> <type> <code value="boolean"/> </type> </element> </ExtensionDefinition>
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.