---
type: "example"
title: "OperationOutcome Example: operationoutcome-example"
resource: "OperationOutcome"
example: "operationoutcome-example"
---
# OperationOutcome Example: operationoutcome-example

## Narrative

The code "W" is not known and not legal Patient.gender.

## Example XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OperationOutcome xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hl7.org/fhir ../../schema/operationoutcome.xsd">
  <id value="101"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <p>The code &quot;W&quot; is not known and not legal Patient.gender.</p>
    </div>
  </text>
  <issue>
    <severity value="error"/>
    <code value="code-invalid"/>
    <details> 
      <text value="The code &quot;W&quot; is not known and not legal in this context"/>    
    </details>
    <diagnostics value="Acme.Interop.FHIRProcessors.Patient.processGender line 2453"/>
    <location value="/f:Patient/f:gender"/>
    <expression value="Patient.gender"/>
  </issue>
</OperationOutcome>
```