ITS WG

The XML SIG supports the HL7 mission through recommendations on use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) standards for all of HL7's platform- and vendor-independent healthcare specifications. Sponsoring TCs are Infrastructure and Messaging TC and Structured Documents TC

The following is an account of the design principles followed for the XML ITS release 1 approved by the INM committee by telcon

• XML ITS design principles

This document is open for comment and review:

• XML ITS
• XML Schema Documentation
• Null Association

Change requests to the XML schema are managed in the following document. Please add any issues that you have with the design of the schemas to the change management document. Bugs in the schema generator should be reported directly to the tooling committee that is responsible for maintaining the schema generator.

• XML ITS R1 schema change management (for issues that require XML related decisions)
• XML ITS R1 schema tooling issues (for issues that require toolsmiths not XML experts)

The following sections carry the outstanding issues for the R2 XML ITS

• Data Types R2 issues (Abstract Data Types)
• R2 XML ITS structures (XML ITS Data Types)