Empty Address Use

Jun 26, 2012

I’ve been working on the premise that there’s never any empty attributes or tags in a CDA document. So you never see anything like this:

 <element/>

or

  <element attr="">...

Well, it turns out that I’m wrong. For attributes with type = SET (abstract), or CS* (XML ITS) or list_ (schema), they can be empty, like this:

<address use="">
  <etc...>
</address>

Now, to hunt down all the people I’ve told otherwise….