FHIR/sushi

Authors would like a better way of handling base64 encoded elements

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Authors would like a better way of handling base64 encoded elements so they do not need to manage the base64 encoding themselves.

There may be multiple ways we could go about this:

  • Add a new FSH keyword (like Base64(...)). This would require a FSH spec change.
  • Automatically base64 encode strings that are on elements that have the base64Binary type. This would require first ensuring the string was not already base64 encoded.
  • Or some other approach!

First mentioned on Zulip: https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/215610-shorthand/topic/base64.20elements