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description

iati-activities/iati-activity/country-budget-items/budget-item/description

This is the reference page for the XML element description.

Definition

A longer, human-readable description of the budget-item. May be repeated for different languages.

Rules

This element must occur no more than once (within each parent element).

Example Usage

Example usage of description of budget-item element, a child element of country-budget-items.

  <country-budget-items vocabulary="4">
   <budget-item code="1844" percentage="50">
    <description>
     <narrative>Description text</narrative>
    </description>
   </budget-item>
   <budget-item code="1900" percentage="50">
    <description>
     <narrative>Description text</narrative>
    </description>
   </budget-item>
  </country-budget-items>

Changelog

2.01

Freetext is no longer allowed with this element. It should now be declared with the new child narrative element, but only in particular use-cases.

The @type attribute was removed.

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