This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v1.0.2: DSTU (v3.0.2: STU 2). 3). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0 . For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions . Page versions: R5 R4B R4 R3 R2 R3 R2

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FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level : N/A

Ballot Status : DSTU 2 Informative

Formal Definitions Specification Downloads
Schema FHIR Definitions	The All the value sets, profiles, etc defined as part of the FHIR XML schemas come in 2 forms: specification, and the included implementation guides: Validation Schemas XML (includes support schemas, resource schemas, modular & combined schemas, and Schematrons) Code Generation Schemas JSON (See notes about code-generation schemas Forge : Special version of definitions for Forge ) (temporary) Note: These is the schemas & schematrons master set of definitions that should be the first choice whenever generating any implementation artifacts. All the other forms below include only subsets of the information available in these definition files, and do not contain all of the rules about what makes resources valid. Implementers will still need to be familiar with the content of the specification and with any profiles that apply to the resources in order to make a conformant implementation.
FHIR Definitions XML	All the value sets, profiles, etc.defined as part of the FHIR specification, and Examples - all the included implementation guides. The definitions come example resources in 4 different forms - XML or JSON, and with and without text definitions: format XML: with text Validation Schemas (includes support schemas, resource schemas, modular & combined schemas, and without text Schematrons) JSON: with text Code Generation Schemas and without text (See notes about code-generation schemas ) Note that the forms without definitions are included to be used with tools that don't use the text definitions (e.g. validation tooling) - they are smaller and load faster
Examples JSON	All the resource examples as a zip file. These can be used to initialise testing repositories, etc XML format Examples - all the example resources in JSON format JSON format Schemas (includes both modular and combined schema)
RDF	A set of RDF definitions for FHIR and related specifications in 2 formats: Turtle Examples - all the example resources in Turtle format JSON-LD Examples - all the example resources in JSON-LD format (experimental) RDF/XML ShEx Schemas - ShEx definitions for validating RDF resources Definitions - the formal definitions that define the predicates and classes used in the RDF format (not up to date) JSON-LD Definitions - the JSON-LD @context for this version of FHIR
Specification Downloads
FHIR Specification	The whole specification so that you can host your own local copy (does not include the downloads)
Implementation Tools
Validator	The official FHIR validator - a Java jar file that can be used to validate resources. See Validation Tools for further information. Note that the validator needs a Definition Pack information
IG Publisher	The Implementation Guide Publishing Tool (see above). IG Publishing documentation Note ) (note: use the current build version, and set the version in your control file)
IG Pack	The Definitions File used by the IG Publisher . This is a zip file that on 15-May 2016 contains all the conformance & example resources, a patched validator was released to fix susceptibility to version marker, and a json file that lists all the XML External Entities attack . pages and URLs in the specification itself. This file can also be used by the validator
Translation File	Translations of common FHIR names and messages into multiple languages (see wiki for instructions on how to add to this)
Icon Pack	The FHIR Icon at various resolutions. resolutions . The FHIR icon is an HL7 trademark, and written permission is required to make use of this icon. See the FHIR Trademark policy and the application forms for event or product use .
Test Cases	A Collection of Test Cases . These are XML or JSON files that provide test cases for the various FHIR reference implementations to ensure correct functioning
Reference Implementations
These reference implementations are provided for implementer interest and assistance. They may be used in production instances, although HL7 and the contributors accept no liability for their use. These implementations There are provided under a standard OSI-approved license (mostly BSD-3-Clause). Note that these many open source reference implementations are provided to assist to implementers available to adopt the specification, and are maintained by the FHIR project team, but help implementers. Here are not part a list of the specification, and more common implementations are not required to conform to these, nor are they subject to the formal standards process. used by implementers:
Java	HAPI-FHIR Resource Definitions, XML & Json parsers, : Object Models, Parsers, Client + Server Framework, FHIR Validator, & various utilities. A Utilities. The specification is built with this Java client can be found at https://github.com/cnanjo/FhirJavaReferenceClient . HAPI also publishes a java reference implementation at http://jamesagnew.github.io/hapi-fhir/ code
Pascal C#	HL7.FHIR Resource Definitions : Object models, Parsers/Serialisers, Utilities, and XML & JSON parsers. Delphi 5+. Depends on IndySoap ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/indysoap/ ). For a full server see http://github.com/grahamegrieve/fhirserver Client. Source code on GitHub at http://github.com/ewoutkramer/fhir-net-api
csharp Pascal	FhirServer : Object models, Parsers/Serialisers, Validators, Validator, Utilities, Client, and a Client. The source code for that compiled .NET library can be found on GitHub at http://github.com/ewoutkramer/fhir-net-api the FHIR Reference server. Requires Delphi (unicode versions)
XML Tools	XML Tools : Document Rendering Stylesheet, supplementary implementation schemas and transforms
JavaScript Javascript	FHIR.js Generates Mongoose models for FHIR resources : Javascript Client and Utilities
Swift	Swift-FHIR : Object Model, Client and Utilities

Other Note: These reference implementations not distributed with the specification: Swift-FHIR - reference implementation are provided for Swift HAPI-FHIR - reference implementation implementer interest and assistance. While they may be used (and are) in production systems, HL7 and their various contributors accept no liability for Java their use. Note that the these reference implementations are generally limited provided to code for representing assist to implementers to adopt the resource contents in their native form and parsing and serializing them as XML specification, and JSON. Some some are maintained by the FHIR project team, but are not part of the implementations provide support for building, using specification, and reasoning with resource definitions. A few implementations include a client that conforms are not required to conform to these, nor are they subject to the RESTful API. formal standards process.

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Full blown open source implementations for FHIR, some of which use these reference implementations, are listed on the HL7 wiki .

It is not necessary to use these particular implementations in order to be conformant. Any other approach may be used, including code generated from the schemas.