narrative

iati-activities/iati-activity/policy-marker/narrative

This is the reference page for the XML element narrative.

Definition

A description of the policy marker. This MUST ONLY be used if vocabulary is 99 (the reporting organisation’s own marker vocabulary). May be repeated for multiple languages.

Rules

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

This element may occur any number of times.

6.13.1: When using a reporting organisation policy marker code (vocabulary 99), it must include a narrative.

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 policy-marker element.

The narrative element should be used only when the 99 (Reporting Organisation) PolicyMarkerVocabulary is declared.

<policy-marker vocabulary="99" code="10" significance="3">
        <narrative>Policy Marker Text</narrative>
</policy-marker>

The narrative element can be repeated for any language additional to the default language set in iati-activity, by using the @xml:lang attribute. Example not shown.

Changelog

2.01

The narrative element was introduced in 2.01.

Developer tools

Find the source of this documentation on github:

• Schema
• Extra Documentation