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

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 description element.

 <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http://www.example.org/docs/report_en.odt">
  <title>
   <narrative>Annual Report 2013</narrative>
  </title>
  <description>
    <narrative>Description of the annual report.</narrative>
  </description>
  <category code="B01" />
  <language code="en" />
  <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
  <recipient-country code="AF">
    <narrative>Afghanistan</narrative>
   </recipient-country>
 </document-link>

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

Note: This relates to the language of the text in the XML.

Changelog

Developer tools

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• Schema

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