A text item, which may contain any amount of legal characters arranged as e.g. words,
sentences etc (i.e. one DV_TEXT may be more than one word). Visual formatting and
hyperlinks may be included.
A DV_TEXT can be coded by adding mappings to it.
Declaration :
Directly inherited by : DV_CODED_TEXT
Artifact : DV_TEXT
Relation mappings (<directional composition>) |
Terms from other terminologies most closely matching this term,
typically used where the originator (e.g. pathology lab) of information
uses a local terminology but also supplies one or more equivalents from
well known terminologies (e.g. LOINC).
Declaration :
Relation language (<directional composition>) |
Optional indicator of the localised language in which the value is written.
Coded from openEHR Code Set languages . Only used when either the text object is
in a different language from the enclosing ENTRY, or else the text object is
being used outside of an ENTRY or other enclosing structure which indicates the
language.
Declaration :
Relation encoding (<directional composition>) |
Name of character encoding scheme in which this value is encoded. Coded from openEHR
Code Set character sets . Unicode is the default assumption in openEHR, with UTF-8
being the assumed encoding. This attribute allows for variations from these assumptions.
Declaration :
Attribut value |
Displayable rendition of the item, regardless of its underlying structure.
For DV_CODED_TEXT, this is the rubric of the complete term as provided by
the terminology service. No carriage returns, line feeds, or other
non-printing characters permitted.
Declaration :
Attribut hyperlink |
Optional link sitting behind a section of plain text or
coded term item.
Declaration :
Attribut formatting |
A format string of the form name:value
Declaration :