1. XMLNews
IST 421
Spring 2004
From The XML Handbook by Goldfarb and Prescod,
Prentice Hall PTR, 2001.

2. XMLNews XML in the news with 2 standards:
XMLNews-Meta – defines metadata records for new objects
Holds the metadata in a separate document
Supports text stories, photos, audio or video, 3-D virtual worlds, and interactive scripts
XMLNews-Story – defines the representation of news stories in XML
Subset of News Industry Text Format (NIFT) standard

3. XMLNews-Story News Industry Text Format (NITF) standard developed by:
The International Press Telecommunications Council
and
The Newspaper Association of America

4. XMLNews-Story News story structure
Headline: “Kansas gets $5.7 Million Relief”
Subheadline: “Money will help dislocated workers,”
Byline: credits the author of the story
Dateline: “Wichita, Kansas, May 6, 1999.”
Body: actual news story or copy

5. XMLNews-Story Structure
head
nitf
body.head
body
body.content
body.end

6. XMLNews-Story Structure
Root element type is nift
Two subelements:
head – contains non-print information about the document like title for cataloging purposes; may or may not be the same as headline
body – body element is subdivided into 3 parts

7. XMLNews-Story Structure
body.head – contains the headline, subheadlines, byline, and dateline
body.content – contains the actual story or copy
body.end – contains the tagline or copyright or distribution notice that appears at the end of a story

8. XMLNews-Story <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE nitf SYSTEM “
<nitf>
</nitf>

9. XMLNews-Story Sample article
In addition, XMLNews-Story supports rich inline markup to improve the quality

10. XMLNews-Story Structure
There are 17 inline elements allowed in the body of a news story:
chron – specific data and time
copyrite
event
function
location
money
num
object.title

11. XMLNews-Story Structure
org
person
virtloc a br em
lang
pronounce q

12. XMLNews-Story Structure
Including these markup items makes story more valuable
Perform intelligent indexing, filtering, cataloging, and searching
Example:
Generate an index of every person mentioned in a day’s news
User could search for “Buffalo” the city without finding matches for “buffalo” the animal

13. XMLNews-Story Structure
Sample article 2