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narrative

iati-organisations/iati-organisation/reporting-org/narrative

This is the reference page for the XML element narrative.

Definition

The name of the organisation. May be repeated for different 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

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 reporting-org element.

  <reporting-org ref="AA-AAA-123456789" type="40" secondary-reporter="0">
   <narrative>Organisation name</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Nom de l'organisme</narrative>
  </reporting-org>

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

  <reporting-org ref="AA-AAA-123456789" type="40" secondary-reporter="0">
   <narrative>Organisation name</narrative>
   <narrative xml:lang="fr">Nom de l'organisme</narrative>
  </reporting-org>

Changelog

2.01

The narrative element was introduced in 2.01.

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