---
type: "example"
title: "MessageDefinition Example: messagedefinition-example"
resource: "MessageDefinition"
example: "messagedefinition-example"
---
# MessageDefinition Example: messagedefinition-example

## Narrative

Message definition base example

## Example XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<MessageDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="example"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Message definition base example</div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/MessageDefinition/example"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.15.3"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="EXAMPLE"/>
  <title value="Message definition base example"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <date value="2016-11-09"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International / Infrastructure and Messaging"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/inm/index.cfm"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Message definition base example"/>
  <purpose value="Defines a base example for other MessageDefinition instances."/>
  <eventCoding>
    <system value="http://example.org/fhir/message-events"/>
    <code value="admin-notify"/>
  </eventCoding>
  <category value="notification"/>
</MessageDefinition>
```