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Extension: ancestor

URL for this extension:

http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ancestor

Status: draft. Extension maintained by: Health Level Seven, Inc. - [WG Name] WG

A canonical reference to a StructureDefinition that this is derived from. This is a de-normalization of a chain of StructureDefinition.baseDefinition.

Comment:

It is an error if a structure definition lists an ancestor that is not in the chain of baseDefinitions.

Context of Use: Use on Element ID StructureDefinition

Extension Content

<!-- ancestor -->doco 
<extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"
 url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ancestor" >
 <!-- from Element: extension -->
 <valueUri value="[uri ]"/><!-- ?? 1..1 Value of extension -->
</extension>

{ // ancestor
 // from Element: extension
 "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url in the specified order, Open ]
 "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ancestor", // R! 
 "valueUri" : "<uri >" // C? R! Value of extension
 }

<!-- ancestor -->doco 
<extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"
 url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ancestor" >
 <!-- from Element: extension -->
 <valueUri value="[uri ]"/><!-- ?? 1..1 Value of extension -->
</extension>

{ // ancestor
 // from Element: extension
 "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url in the specified order, Open ]
 "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ancestor", // R! 
 "valueUri" : "<uri >" // C? R! Value of extension
 }

Constraints

• ele-1: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children unless an empty Parameters resource (xpath: @value|f:*|h:div|self::f:Parameters)
• ext-1: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')]))
• ele-1: On Extension.extension: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath on Extension.extension: @value|f:*|h:div)
• ext-1: On Extension.extension: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath on Extension.extension: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), "value")]))
• ele-1: On Extension.value[x]: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath on Extension.value[x]: @value|f:*|h:div)