NewsML

News Markup LanguageNewsML represents an XML-based standard to represent and manage news throughout its lifecycle, including production, interchange, and consumer use. NewsML, initiated by Reuters in 1998, was ratified as an official standard by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) on the 6th October 2000.NewsML can be applied at all stages in the (electronic) news life cycle. Typical uses would include: in and between editorial systems; between news agencies and their customers; between publishers and news aggregators; and between news service providers and end users. NewsML takes the form of an XML document, which has a series of components, or elements, that are used to structure and process the actual news content. These elements may have attributes to specify their properties and can carry content in the form of other elements (subelements) and/or character data or external references.

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