FHIR Chat · Validator - trouble loading custom profiles

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Topic: Validator - trouble loading custom profiles

Morten Ernebjerg (Aug 28 2018 at 13:59):

I am using the newest validator from https://build.fhir.org/downloads.html and want to validate STU3 resources against custom profiles. Using just the standard validation works fine (here for a file in the directory of the validator)

java -jar org.hl7.fhir.validator.jar -version 3.0.1 ./patient-example.xml

Then I add a Patient profile (just the StructureDefinition resource as XML, not a full IG) in the sub-directory profiles. Now I want to the validator to load this profile and validate against it. As a test, suppose that I added the standard Patient resource definition, (https://www.hl7.org/fhir/patient.profile.xml). So I run

java -jar org.hl7.fhir.validator.jar -version 3.0.1 ./patient-example.xml -ig profiles/ -profile http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient

This gives the following error:

    (v3.0.1-null)
+  .. load IG from profiles/
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: Error parsing patient.profile.xml: Unknown Content valueSetReference @  START_TAG seen ...escription value="A human language."/>\n        <valueSetReference>... @939:28
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.validation.ValidationEngine.loadIg(ValidationEngine.java:670)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.validation.Validator.main(Validator.java:341)
Caused by: org.hl7.fhir.exceptions.FHIRFormatError: Unknown Content valueSetReference @  START_TAG seen ...escription value="A human language."/>\n        <valueSetReference>... @939:28
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParserBase.unknownContent(XmlParserBase.java:279)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseElementDefinitionElementDefinitionBindingComponent(XmlParser.java:1888)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseElementDefinitionContent(XmlParser.java:1701)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseElementDefinition(XmlParser.java:1626)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseStructureDefinitionStructureDefinitionSnapshotComponentContent(XmlParser.java:19497)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseStructureDefinitionStructureDefinitionSnapshotComponent(XmlParser.java:19486)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseStructureDefinitionContent(XmlParser.java:19418)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseStructureDefinition(XmlParser.java:19357)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParser.parseResource(XmlParser.java:23323)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParserBase.parse(XmlParserBase.java:105)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.formats.XmlParserBase.parse(XmlParserBase.java:89)
        at org.hl7.fhir.r4.validation.ValidationEngine.loadIg(ValidationEngine.java:659)
        ... 1 more

This error occurs even after removing the -profile parameter, so it seems to be related to the initial loading of the profile. Playing with the -tx and -version parameters does not change anything, either. I tried various different profiles and always see this error (always comaplaining about the same field in the StructureDefinition), yet loading profiles from a directory used to work fine and as far as I could tell from the validator wiki page, it is still supported. Did anything change or am I just missing something?