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narrative

iati-organisations/iati-organisation/total-expenditure/expense-line/narrative

This is the reference page for the XML element 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

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 expense-line element.

  <total-expenditure>
   <period-start iso-date="2014-01-01" />
   <period-end iso-date="2014-12-31" />
   <value currency="USD" value-date="2014-01-01">250000000</value>
   <expense-line ref="1234">
     <value currency="USD" value-date="2014-01-01">200000000</value>
<narrativexml:lang="en">ExpenseLine</narrative>
   </expense-line>
 </total-expenditure>

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

Changelog

2.02

The optional total-expenditure element was added.

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