HL7 Version 3 Standard: XML Implementation Technology Specification R2 Guide, Release 1

This document describes the rationale for the decisions taken when developing and maintaining the HL7 Implementable Technology Specification (ITS). This information is provided to support the use of the specification, and is not intended to restrict or extend the meaning of that specification. This guide is broken into 2 parts: the ISO datatypes guide, and the ITS R2 Guide.

Main sections:

· Overview

· ISO datatypes guide introduction

· ITS R2 summary

· Design principles

· Addressing implementation requirements

· Model-based validation

· Specification walkthrough

· Implementation issues

· Relationship to XML ITS Structures Release 2

· Glossary

· Questions for publishing

· Examples