narrative

iati-activities/iati-activity/description/narrative

This is the reference page for the XML element narrative.

Definition

The free text name or description of the item being described. This can be repeated in multiple languages.

Rules

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

This element must occur at least once (within each parent element).

Attributes

@xml:lang

ISO 639-1 code specifying the language of text in this element. If a default language is specified in the iati-activity element it does not have to be repeated here.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

Example Usage

The narrative child element can be used to declare freetext for the description parent element.

  <description type="1">
   <narrative>General activity description text.  Long description of the activity with no particular structure.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Activité générale du texte de description. Longue description de l'activité sans structure particulière.</narrative>
  </description>
  <description type="2">
   <narrative>Objectives for the activity, for example from a logical framework.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Objectifs de l'activité, par exemple à partir d'un cadre logique.</narrative>   
  </description>
  <description type="3">
   <narrative>Statement of groups targeted to benefit from the activity.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Déclaration de groupes ciblés pour bénéficier de l'activité.</narrative>
  </description>

The narrative element can be repeated for any language additional to the default language set in iati-activity, by using the @xml:lang attribute:

  <description type="1">
   <narrative>General activity description text.  Long description of the activity with no particular structure.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Activité générale du texte de description. Longue description de l'activité sans structure particulière.</narrative>
  </description>
  <description type="2">
   <narrative>Objectives for the activity, for example from a logical framework.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Objectifs de l'activité, par exemple à partir d'un cadre logique.</narrative>   
  </description>
  <description type="3">
   <narrative>Statement of groups targeted to benefit from the activity.</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Déclaration de groupes ciblés pour bénéficier de l'activité.</narrative>
  </description>

Changelog

2.01

The narrative element was introduced in 2.01.

Developer tools

Find the source of this documentation on github:

• Schema
• Extra Documentation