---
type: "codesystem"
title: "FHIR Format Type"
codesystem: "fhir-format-type"
---
# FHIR Format Type

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-format-type
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: FHIRFormatType
- **Title**: FHIR Format Type
- **Publisher**: HL7
- **Description**: FHIR Format types
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| xml | XML | XML content-type corresponding to the application/fhir+xml mime-type. |
| json | JSON | JSON content-type corresponding to the application/fhir+json mime-type. |
| ttl | TTL | RDF content-type corresponding to the text/turtle mime-type. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hl7.org/fhir ../../schema/fhir-single.xsd">
	<id value="fhir-format-type"/>
	<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
		<valueInteger value="0"/>
	</extension>
	<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
		<valueCode value="fhir"/>
	</extension>
	<url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-format-type"/>
	<identifier>
		<system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
		<value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1911"/>
	</identifier>
	<name value="FHIRFormatType"/>
	<title value="FHIR Format Type"/>
	<status value="draft"/>
	<experimental value="false"/>
	<date value="2022-08-17"/>
	<publisher value="HL7"/>
	<description value="FHIR Format types"/>
	<caseSensitive value="true"/>
	<valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/fhir-content-type"/>
	<content value="complete"/>
	<concept>
		<code value="xml"/>
		<display value="XML"/>
		<definition value="XML content-type corresponding to the application/fhir+xml mime-type."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="json"/>
		<display value="JSON"/>
		<definition value="JSON content-type corresponding to the application/fhir+json mime-type."/>
	</concept>
	<!-- <concept>
    <code value="yaml"/>
    <display value="YAML"/>
    <definition value="JSON content-type corresponding to the application/fhir+json mime-type."/>
  </concept>-->
	<!-- <concept>
    <code value="fsh"/>
    <display value="FSH"/>
    <definition value="FHIR Shorthand (FSH) is a domain-specific language for defining FHIR artifacts"/>
  </concept> -->
	<concept>
		<code value="ttl"/>
		<display value="TTL"/>
		<definition value="RDF content-type corresponding to the text/turtle mime-type."/>
	</concept>
	<!-- <concept>
    <code value="none"/>
    <display value="None"/>
    <definition value="Prevent the use of the corresponding http header."/>
  </concept> -->
	<!-- <concept>
    <code value="other"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="Other content-type"/>
  </concept> -->
</CodeSystem>
```