Function: parseCd()

parseCd(el, ctx): CD | undefined

Parse a CD/CE element into a typed CD. Returns undefined when the element is absent. Resolves a child <originalText> to its trimmed text and parses each <translation> recursively (translations of a translation are ignored, C-CDA does not nest them). Never throws.

A @nullFlavor declared beside a populated @code emits CONTRADICTORY_NULL_FLAVOR: the element says both "this concept is unknown" and "this concept is X". Only @code counts as the contradicting assertion. A nullFlavor beside originalText, a <translation>, a displayName or a bare @codeSystem is the documented C-CDA idiom for "not codable in the bound value set, here is the source text or an alternate coding", which is coherent rather than contradictory and stays silent.

Unlike PQ/TS, the code is kept: it is the document's own text rather than a reading this parser manufactured, and there is no verbatim copy to fall back on, so withholding it would delete what the document said. See parsePq for the full argument.

Parameters

el

any

ctx

ParseCtx

Returns

CD | undefined

Example

import { parseCd } from "@cosyte/ccda";
const code = parseCd(codeEl, { emit: () => {} });
console.log(code?.code, code?.displayName);