FHIR Chat · ig publisher referencing valueset with full url

Stream: implementers

Topic: ig publisher referencing valueset with full url

Sean McIlvenna (May 01 2017 at 21:49):

How do you reference a ValueSet that has an identifier different from your implementation guide's base url?
Is it ok to have
<reference value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-ConfidentialityClassification" />
even though the base url for the value set is different than the IG I'm publishing?

Sean McIlvenna (May 01 2017 at 21:49):

note that I am explicitly including the value set in the package, not relying on the terminology server to have it

Grahame Grieve (May 01 2017 at 21:49):

why are you republishing it when it is already in the base spec?

Sean McIlvenna (May 01 2017 at 21:50):

this is just an example... clearly a bad one

Sean McIlvenna (May 01 2017 at 21:50):

but the scenario I'm still wondering about

Grahame Grieve (May 01 2017 at 21:53):

so you should not republish what is in the spec. And you should try hard not to end up publishing a conformance resource with some other base url - it's indicative of a broken publishing chain somewhere which will cause maintenance problems. But because the broken chain might be somewhere that you can't fix:
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=IG_Publisher_Documentation#Special_URLs