The <Article> Element

Description

A <News> article container element.

Note This node can occur both in so-called 'nested news' (as in <Organisation> (root)/<News>) and 'non-nested news' (as in <TBMData>/<News>).

<Article
    id = integer
    original-id = string
    content-type = "literal"
    language = language id
    date = datetime
    time = time
    source = "string(500)"
    editor = "string(50)"
    chief-editor = "string(50)"
    is-reference = boolean >
</Article>

Attributes

Attribute nameData typeDescription
idinteger The globally unique id for this particular news article, regardless of news agency.
original-idstring The id for this particular news article (for this particular agency).
content-typeliteral Indicates the formatting for the article content. Normal is used in most cases, but specific types may be used by different agencies.

Note The TBXDS engine can invoke a different formatting engine based on this attribute (for instance, Tagged.HTML will use CDATA-sections rather than plain text). This can also be overridden by explicitly setting the content-handler on the <Agency> request element. The content-type value will not change however.

languagelanguage id The language of this news article. It will usually be the language requested, but if this is not specified, one or more of the default languages are used.
datedatetime The date of publication of this news article. For nested news, only the date is summplied (see time).
timetime Only nested news. The time of this news article.
sourcestring(500) The identification of the news provider of this news article.
editorstring(50) The person or department that edited this particular news message.
chief-editorstring(50) The chief editor for this news article.
is-reference Optionalboolean This attribute is only used for nested news articles (i.e., with parent node <Organisation> (root)/<News>). Indicates whether you should look elsewhere for the actual content of this news article. XPath expression: /TBMData/Sector/Organisation/News/Article[@id = $id and not(@is-reference = 'yes')].

Number of occurences

Unlimited

Occurs within

<News>

Can contain

<Categories> | <Category> | <Copyright> | <Destinations> | <Exchanges> | <FtseSectors> | <Header> | <Introduction> | <Organisations> | <Paragraph> | <Sectors> | <SubHeader>

See also

<LastPublishedId>