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document-link¶

iati-activities/iati-activity/result/indicator/document-link

This is the reference page for the XML element document-link.

Definition¶

A link to an online, publicly accessible web page or document expanding on the result.

Rules¶

This element may occur any number of times.

Attributes¶

@url

The target URL of the external document, e.g. “http://www.example.org/doc.odt”.

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:anyURI.

@format

An IANA code for the MIME type of the document being referenced, e.g. “application/pdf”.

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value must be on the FileFormat codelist.

Example Usage¶

Example document-link in a indicator in a result element.

This element is a parent for other child elements.
The @format attribute declares a valid code (application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text) from the FileFormat codelist.
The @url attribute provides the document location.
<document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/result_indicator_en.odt">
...
</document-link>
Full example with all child elements:
   <indicator measure="1" ascending="1" aggregation-status="1">
     <title>
      <narrative>Indicator title</narrative>
     </title>
     <description>
      <narrative>Indicator description text</narrative>
     </description>
     <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/result_indicator_en.odt">
      <title>
       <narrative>Results Indicator Report 2013</narrative>
      </title>
      <description>
        <narrative>Report of results indicator</narrative>
      </description>
      <category code="A01" />
      <language code="en" />
      <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
     </document-link>
     <reference vocabulary="1" code="3429" />
     <reference vocabulary="7" code="861" />
     <reference vocabulary="99" code="B1" indicator-uri="http://example.com/indicators.html" />
<!--result-baseline starts-->
     <baseline year="2012" iso-date="2012-01-01" value="10">
      <location ref="AF-KAN" />
      <location ref="KH-PNH" />
      <dimension name="sex" value="female" />
      <dimension name="age" value="adult" />
      <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/result_baseline_en.odt">
       <title>
        <narrative>Results Baseline Report 2013</narrative>
       </title>
       <description>
         <narrative>Report of results baseline</narrative>
       </description>
       <category code="A01" />
       <language code="en" />
       <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
      </document-link>
      <comment>
       <narrative>Baseline comment text</narrative>
      </comment>
     </baseline>
     <!--result-baseline ends-->
     <!--result-period starts-->
     <period>
      <period-start iso-date="2013-01-01" />
      <period-end iso-date="2013-03-31" />
      <target value="10">
       <location ref="AF-KAN" />
       <location ref="KH-PNH" />
       <dimension name="sex" value="female" />
       <dimension name="age" value="adult" />
       <comment>
        <narrative>Target comment text</narrative>
       </comment>
       <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/result_period_target_en.odt">
        <title>
         <narrative>Results Period Target Report 2013</narrative>
        </title>
        <description>
          <narrative>Report of results period target</narrative>
        </description>
        <category code="A01" />
        <language code="en" />
        <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
       </document-link>
      </target>
      <actual value="11">
       <location ref="AF-KAN" />
       <location ref="KH-PNH" />
       <dimension name="sex" value="female" />
       <dimension name="age" value="adult" />
       <comment>
         <narrative>Actual comment text</narrative>
       </comment>
       <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/result_period_actual_en.odt">
        <title>
         <narrative>Results Period Actual Report 2013</narrative>
        </title>
        <description>
          <narrative>Report of results period actual</narrative>
        </description>
        <category code="A01" />
        <language code="en" />
        <document-date iso-date="2014-02-05" />
       </document-link>
      </actual>
     </period>
     <!--result-period ends-->
   </indicator>
The document-link element can be repeated in any result element.

Changelog¶

2.03¶

The optional document-link element was added.

Developer tools¶

Find the source of this documentation on github:

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