Clinical Document Architecture with Australian Schema, published by Australian Digital Health Agency. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/AuDigitalHealth/cda-au-schema/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
| Official URL: http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/BL | Version: 1.0.1 | |||
| Active as of 2025-11-02 | Maturity Level: 1 | Responsible: HL7 | Computable Name: BL | |
The Boolean type stands for the values of two-valued logic. A Boolean value can be either true or false, or, as any other value may be NULL.
Usages:
You can also check for usages in the FHIR IG Statistics
Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work.
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
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1..1 | |||
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0..1 | cs | Binding: CDANullFlavor (required) | |
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0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source | 
| BL.nullFlavor | Base | required | CDANullFlavor | 📦1.0.1 | This IG | 
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     | 
  
This structure is derived from ANY
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
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0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     | 
  
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
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1..1 | |||
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0..1 | cs | Binding: CDANullFlavor (required) | |
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0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source | 
| BL.nullFlavor | Base | required | CDANullFlavor | 📦1.0.1 | This IG | 
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     | 
  
Key Elements View
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
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1..1 | |||
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0..1 | cs | Binding: CDANullFlavor (required) | |
![]() ![]() ![]()  | 
0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source | 
| BL.nullFlavor | Base | required | CDANullFlavor | 📦1.0.1 | This IG | 
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     | 
  
Differential View
This structure is derived from ANY
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
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0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     | 
  
Snapshot View
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints    Filter:  ![]() ![]()  | 
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C | 1..* | ANY | XML Namespace: urn:hl7-org:v3 Base for all types and resources Elements defined in Ancestors:@nullFlavor Logical Container: ClinicalDocument (CDA Class) Constraints: value-null  | 
![]() ![]()  | 
1..1 | |||
![]() ![]() ![]()  | 
0..1 | cs | Binding: CDANullFlavor (required) | |
![]() ![]() ![]()  | 
0..1 | bl | ||
  Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source | 
| BL.nullFlavor | Base | required | CDANullFlavor | 📦1.0.1 | This IG | 
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression | 
| value-null | error | BL | value and nullFlavor are mutually exclusive (one must be present) | 
      (value | nullFlavor).count() = 1
     |