description

Definition

A longer, human-readable description. May be repeated for different languages.

Attributes

@type

A machine readable code describing the type of thing being referenced. The value should be available on a related codelist.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value must be on the DescriptionType codelist.

@xml:lang

ISO 2 letter code specifying the language of text in this element.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

Example Usage

Example usage of description in context of an indicator in a result element.

  <result type="1" aggregation-status="1">
   <title>Result 1 title</title>
   <description>Result 1 description text</description>
   <indicator measure="1" ascending="1">
     <title>Indicator 1 title</title>
<description>Indicator1descriptiontext</description>
     <baseline year="2012" value="10">
      <comment>Baseline comment text</comment>
     </baseline>
     <period>
      <period-start iso-date="2013-01-01" />
       <period-end iso-date="2013-03-31" />
       <target value="10">
        <comment>Target comment text</comment> 
       </target>
       <actual value="11">
        <comment>Actual comment text</comment> 
       </actual>
     </period>
   </indicator>
  </result>

It may be appropriate to repeat the description in other languages using xml:lang attribute. In this example, the language en has been set in the ‘’iati-activity’’ element:

  <result type="1" aggregation-status="1">
   <title>Result 1 title</title>
   <title xml:lang="fr">Result 1 titre</title>
   <description>Result 1 description text</description>
   <description xml:lang="fr">Result 1 texte de description</description>
   <indicator measure="1" ascending="1">
    <title>Indicator 1 title</title>
    <title xml:lang="fr">Indicator 1 titre</title>
<description>Indicator1descriptiontext</description>
<descriptionxml:lang="fr">Indicator1textededescription</description>
    <baseline year="2012" value="10">
     <comment>Baseline comment text</comment>
     <comment xml:lang="fr">Baseline comment texte</comment> 
    </baseline>
    <period> 
     <period-start iso-date="2013-01-01"/> 
     <period-end iso-date="2013-03-31"/>
     <target value="10">
      <comment>Target comment text</comment>
      <comment xml:lang="fr">Target comment texte</comment> 
     </target>
     <actual value="11">
      <comment>Actual comment text</comment>
      <comment xml:lang="fr">Actual comment texte</comment>     
     </actual>
    </period> 
   </indicator>
  </result>

Developer tools

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