FHIR Chat · HumanName with no name · implementers

Stream: implementers

Topic: HumanName with no name

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:30):

I'm sure this has come up before, but here goes.
What would this mean?

<name>
    <use value="official"/>
</name>

Am I asserting that I do not know the official name?
Is it a piece of nonsense?

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:32):

How about?

<name/>

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:32):

When would HumanName be used with no name content?

Ewout Kramer (Aug 22 2017 at 07:33):

No, communicating nothing about a name says nothing about a name. In this case if you really wanted to explicitly communicate that you do not know the name, use the https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-data-absent-reason.html extension instead.

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:33):

Fair enough.

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:35):

So <name/> actually says nothing about name.

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 22 2017 at 07:36):

And

<name>
    <use value="official"/>
</name>

says nothing about an official name.

Vadim Peretokin (Aug 22 2017 at 09:09):

Minor thing, <name/> is illegal, you can't have blank elements.

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 23 2017 at 01:26):

@Vadim Peretokin Good.
Where is that documented?

Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 23 2017 at 04:01):

There's a constraint on "element" requiring that all elements have either a value or children.

Richard Townley-O'Neill (Aug 23 2017 at 04:03):

Thanks. The natural place.

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