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-activity.

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>Project Report 2013</narrative>	   
    <narrative xml:lang="fr">Rapport de projet 2013</narrative>
   </title>
   <category code="A01" />
<languagecode="en"/>
  </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>Project Report 2013</narrative>
                <narrative xml:lang="fr">Rapport de projet 2013</narrative>
        </title>
        <category code="A01" />
<languagecode="en"/>
<languagecode="fr"/>
</document-link>

Changelog

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