9.48.1 The OECD DAC policy-marker significance values are tested when the vocabulary 99 is used

[stevieflow]

I provided some data - eg:

<policy-marker code="1" significance="5" vocabulary="99"/>

The validator finds an error in this:

Here; the objection is that a significance value of 5 is not on this codelist: https://iatistandard.org/en/iati-standard/203/codelists/policysignificance/ (there are only values 0-4)

However, I have stated that the policy-marker in play here is of vocabulary 99. From this test, the logic seems to be that:

• all policy-markers must use the same significance code list, regardless of vocabulary

I don't think that is intended - but there's no documentation or guidance to explain this, either in the schema or any associated docs

The closest I can find is a rule:

When using a reporting organisation policy marker code (vocabulary 99), it must include a narrative.

--> @markbrough any thoughts?

cc/ @Bjwebb

[stevieflow]

@akmiller01 just pinging you on this --> wondered if you know if this logic came through during the build of the validator, maybe? Thanks

[akmiller01]

Hi @stevieflow I think this logic is actually enforced through the logic in the validator that looks at the Codelists. If you check mapping.xml from the IATI-Codelists repo, you'll see that policy-marker significance codelist mapping does not have any condition elements associated with it: https://github.com/IATI/IATI-Codelists/blob/version-2.03/mapping.xml#L199-L202

As a result, that codelist will always be enforced.