forecast

iati-activities/iati-activity/fss/forecast

This is the reference page for the XML element forecast.

Definition

A container to hold separate forecasts for each of the years specified Text() holds the forecast value for each year.

Rules

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

This element may occur any number of times.

Attributes

@year

The calendar year that the forward spend covers

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:decimal.

@currency

A three letter ISO 4217 code for the original currency of the amount. This is required for all currency amounts unless the iati-organisation/@default-currency attribute is specified.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value must be on the Currency codelist.

@value-date

The date to be used for determining the exchange rate for currency conversions.

This value must be of type xsd:date.

Example Usage

Example of forecast for the fss of an iati-activity.

An example date is declared in the @value-date attribute.
This example date format conform to the xsd:date standard - for most cases YYYY-MM-DD is sufficient.
This example declares the attribute @year as 2014.
This example declares a Currency code GBP, using the @currency attribute.
Note: A Currency code should only be declared if different to @default-currency in the iati-activity element.
  <fss extraction-date="2014-05-06" priority="1" phaseout-year="2016">
   <forecast year="2014" value-date="2013-07-03" currency="GBP">10000</forecast>
  </fss>
Note: multiple forecasts are expressed by repeating the forecast element.

Changelog

1.03

New in 1.03
Added the optional fss element and its child elements

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