Three industry-standard Article Markup Languages that semantically structure editorial text. Brought to you by the IPTC: setting news industry standards since 1965.

Any ArticleML document can be included within a NewsML wrapper, which provides in-depth layers of metadata covering subject matter, authorship, publication history, priority, and other publishing details. NewsML also allows news items of any media type to be ranked and grouped, providing the ultimate flexibility in content distribution.

<Article> Schema

<NITF> Schema

<HTML> MicroFormat
  • Clean, concise, consistent, and legacy-free XML vocabulary.
  • The tidiest way to identify the semantic components of your news text.
  • Proven in the field for almost 10 years.
  • Widely used by newspapers and newswires around the world.
  • Standardized xHTML authoring conventions that capture the essence of your content.
  • Leaves the formatting out, so your CSS Stylesheets have full power.
    • See an <Article> Example
    See an <NITF> Example
    See an <HTML> Example
    <Article> In Depth
    <NITF> In Depth
    <HTML> In Depth

    All are functionally equivalent, and share the same conceptual model.
    Which approach is right for you?