period-start

iati-organisations/iati-organisation/total-expenditure/period-start

This is the reference page for the XML element period-start.

Definition

The start of the budget period.

Rules

This element must occur once and only once (within each parent element).

Attributes

@iso-date

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:date.

The time between period-start/@iso-date and period-end/@iso-date must not be over a year

period-start/@iso-date must be before or the same as period-end/@iso-date

Example Usage

Example period-start of total-expenditure for an iati-organisation.

An example date is declared in the @iso-date attribute.

This example date format conform to the xsd:date standard - for most cases YYYY-MM-DD is sufficient.

  <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>
     <narrative xml:lang="en">Expense Line</narrative>
   </expense-line>
 </total-expenditure>

Changelog

2.02

The optional total-expenditure element was added.

Developer tools

Find the source of this documentation on github:

• Schema

• Extra Documentation