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<NamingSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
<id value="iri"/>
<text>
<status value="generated"/>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h3>Summary</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td>Defining URL</td><td>http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/iri</td></tr><tr><td>Name</td><td>IRI</td></tr><tr><td>Status</td><td>active</td></tr><tr><td>Definition</td><td><div><p>As defined by RFC 3987 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt). Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) are the internationalized version of URIs (which are also defined as a NamingSystem as https://terminology.hl7.org/4.0.0/NamingSystem-uri.html) that allow Unicode characters to be used in the identifier with some restrictions, which was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2005. An IRI such as 'https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/हृदय' can be percent-encoded into the URI 'https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AF' to be used as a URL, but the IRI is easier to read, particularly for readers of non-Latin languages, and is natively supported by many tools, including many browsers, HTTP libraries, and in the Resource Description Framework (RDF).</p>
</div></td></tr></table><h3>Identifiers</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td><b>Type</b></td><td><b>Value</b></td><td><b>Preferred</b></td></tr><tr><td>URI</td><td>urn:ietf:rfc:3987</td><td>true</td></tr></table></div>
</text>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/extension-title">
<valueString value="Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI)"/>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://terminology.hl7.org/StructureDefinition/ext-namingsystem-version">
<valueString value="1.0.0"/>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/5.0/StructureDefinition/extension-NamingSystem.url">
<valueUri value="http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/iri"/>
</extension>
<name value="IRI"/>
<status value="active"/>
<kind value="identifier"/>
<date value="2023-03-16T00:00:00-00:00"/>
<description
value="As defined by RFC 3987 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt). Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) are the internationalized version of URIs (which are also defined as a NamingSystem as https://terminology.hl7.org/4.0.0/NamingSystem-uri.html) that allow Unicode characters to be used in the identifier with some restrictions, which was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2005. An IRI such as 'https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/हृदय' can be percent-encoded into the URI 'https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AF' to be used as a URL, but the IRI is easier to read, particularly for readers of non-Latin languages, and is natively supported by many tools, including many browsers, HTTP libraries, and in the Resource Description Framework (RDF)."/>
<uniqueId>
<type value="uri"/>
<value value="urn:ietf:rfc:3987"/>
<preferred value="true"/>
</uniqueId>
</NamingSystem>