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All proposed changes to the IATI Activities standard Version 1.03 upgrade are contained in the attached sheet and in the accompanying lists of changes to codelists (http://bit.ly/XE9eQV).

A technical description of schema changes cand be found at http://wiki.iatistandard.org/standard/revision/1.03/changes_specification
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Please note that all changes to and beneath the location element have been deferred to the Version 1.04 Upgrade
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Legend
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Changed items are highlighted in yellow
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New items are highlighted in green
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Deprecated items are highlighted in pink
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Data Format
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The attached table has an additional Data format column which better describes the contents of each value and attribute without interfering with the XML Schema's format syntax.
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Required Rules
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The attached table also has two new columns - 'Required' and 'Required Notes' - to provide a better interpretation of the standard's rules than those provided in the 'XML Occur' column. It uses the following values:
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MMandatory under all circumstances
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OOptional under all circumstances
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CA conditional requirement. (eg. Either recipient-country or recipient-region is required.)
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(m)Mandatory if the parent element is present.
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(c)A conditional requirement if the parent element is present. The conditon is specified in the 'Required Notes
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