NewsML is an XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 standard designed to provide a media-independent, structural framework for multi-media news. NewsML was developed by — and is a registered trademark of — the IPTC

International Press Telecommunications Council

The International Press Telecommunications Council, based in London, United Kingdom, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors...

. It is structure based, leaving layout and other presentational features to style sheets and other presentation languages such as XHTML or SMIL.

It has also been adopted as Japanese Industry Standard (JIS) X7201:2005.

Although superseded in 2008 by NewsML-G2

NewsML-G2

NewsML-G2 is an XML multimedia news exchange format standard of the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council.As part of the IPTC G2-Standards family, NewsML-G2 acts as an envelope for one or more news items or a structured package of links to news items, and contains metadata to...

, NewsML 1

NewsML 1

NewsML 1 is an XML standard designed to provide a media-independent, structural framework for multimedia news. It was formerly known as NewsML.NewsML 1 was developed by — and is a registered trademark of — the IPTC....

(as the original NewsML is now known) remains popular outside North America (especially in Asia) and is still supported by the IPTC.

External links

• http://www.newsml.org
• http://about.reuters.com/newsml/
• http://www.jisc.go.jp/ Japanese Industrial Standards Committee