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CDA R3 NonXMLBody-Text Cardinality
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| Submitted by: Sean McIlvenna (Alschuler Associates, LLC) | Revision date: 11/20/2009 |
| Submitted date: 11/20/2009 | Change request ID: <<Change Request ID>> |
Issue
Currently, the nonXMLBody only allows a single text element which allows only a single document/image to be referenced or embedded within the CDA document.
Recommendation
- The nonXMLBody element should allow multiple text elements (change the cardinality to 1..*) allowing multiple documents to be embedded and/or referenced.
- It could be assumed that the order of the text elements also specifies the preferred order of the documents.
Rationale
The Unstructured Documents work group has discussed the scenario where some types of scanners may represent each "page" of the scan job as a separate document/image, which means that several documents/images together represent a single "whole" document.
