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narrative

iati-activities/iati-activity/planned-disbursement/receiver-org/narrative

This is the reference page for the XML element narrative.

Definition

The name of the organisation. This can be repeated in multiple languages

Rules

The text in this element must be of type xsd:string.

This element may occur any number of times.

Attributes

@xml:lang

A code specifying the language of text in this element. It is recommended that wherever possible only codes from ISO 639-1 are used. If not present, the default language is assumed.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

Example Usage

The narrative child element can be used to declare freetext for the receiver-org element of a planned-disbursement.

  <planned-disbursement type="1">
   <period-start iso-date="2014-01-01" />
   <period-end iso-date="2014-12-31" />
   <value currency="EUR" value-date="2014-01-01">3000</value>
   <provider-org provider-activity-id="BB-BBB-123456789-1234AA" type="10" ref="BB-BBB-123456789">
    <narrative>Agency B</narrative>
   </provider-org>
   <receiver-org receiver-activity-id="AA-AAA-123456789-1234" type="23" ref="AA-AAA-123456789">
    <narrative>Agency A</narrative>
   </receiver-org>
  </planned-disbursement>

The narrative element can be repeated for any language additional to the default language set in iati-activity, by using the @xml:lang attribute. Example not shown.

Changelog

2.02

Added the optional receiver-org element, including the narrative element.

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