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Maturity Level : 5
Responsible Owner: FHIR Infrastructure icon Work Group Ballot Standards Status : Trial Use Normative
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Narrative
Definition

A human-readable formatted text, including images. summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.

Short Display Human-readable summary of the resource (essential clinical and business information)
Cardinality 0..*
1..1 Type DataType
Narrative.status
Definition

The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.

Short Display generated | extensions | additional | empty
Cardinality 1..1
Terminology Binding NarrativeStatus ( Required )
Type code
Narrative.div
Definition

The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.

Short Display Limited xhtml content
Cardinality 1..1
Type xhtml
Comments

The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content may not SHALL NOT contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.

Invariants Constraints : htmlchecks(), xpath: descendant::text()[normalize-space(.)!=''] or descendant::h:img[@src])
Defined on this element
txt-1 : Rule The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributes ( expression : htmlchecks(), xpath: not(descendant-or-self::*[not(local-name(.)=('a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'b', 'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'caption', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'dfn', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'li', 'ol', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'ul', 'var'))]) attributes, and not(descendant-or-self::*/@*[not(name(.)=('abbr', 'accesskey', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'bgcolor', 'border', 'cellhalign', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'cellvalign', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'cite', 'class', 'colspan', 'compact', 'coords', 'dir', 'frame', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'name', 'nowrap', 'rel', 'rev', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'span', 'src', 'start', 'style', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'title', 'type', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width'))])) txt-2 : The narrative SHALL have contain some non-whitespace content ( expression characters htmlChecks()