language

Definition

The ISO 639-1 language code in which target document is written, e.g. “en”. Can be repeated to describe multi-lingual documents.

Rules

This element may occur any number of times.

Attributes

@code

ISO 639-1 language code

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

Example Usage

Example usage of language of a document-link in an iati-organisation.

The @language attribute declares a valid code (en) from the Language codelist.

Note: This specifies the language of the document being linked to.

 <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http://www.example.org/docs/report_en.odt">
  <title>
    <narrative>Annual Report 2013</narrative>
    <narrative xml:lang="fr">Rapport annuel 2013</narrative>
   </title>
   <description>
    <narrative>Description of the annual report.</narrative>
  </description>
   <category code="B01" />
   <language code="en" />
   <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
   <recipient-country code="AF">
    <narrative>Afghanistan</narrative>
   </recipient-country>
  </document-link>

In some cases, a document-link may be in multiple languages. This is expressed by repeating the language element.

<document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/report.odt">
        <title>
                <narrative>Annual Report 2013</narrative>
                <narrative xml:lang="fr">Rapport annuel 2013</narrative>
        </title>
        <category code="B01" />
        <language code="en" />
        <language code="fr" />
</document-link>

Changelog

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