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Which NewsML standard do you want?
NewsML is designed to provide a media-type-independent, structural framework for multi-media news. Beyond exchanging single items it can also convey packages of multiple items in a structures layout.
This page allows to select more information either about NewsML 1 or NewsML-G2 2.0
NewsML 1.x
NewsML 1 is the first design of the NewsML approach to exchange news. It was adopted by big news agencies around the globe and is still in use.
NewsML 1 was released first in 2000, the current version is 1.2 of 2003.
NewsML-G2
NewsML-G2 is the next step in the NewsML evolution: it builds on a framework which is common to a whole family of news exchange standards while its focus remains on the exchange of general news. Also the handling of metadata values has been improved.
NewsML-G2 2.0 was first released in spring 2008, the current version is 2.1.