The <Category> Element

Description

The category information for the current news <Article>; there can be several categories for one article. Note that for non-nested news articles (version 3.0 and above), the Category node has the path <TBMData>/<News>/<Article>/<Categories> (or <Betten.Kenmerken>), rather than <TBMData>/<Sector> (Organisation)/<Organisation> (root)/<News>/<Article>, as used by nested news (versions prior to 3.0).

<Category
    id = "string(255)"
    description = "string(255)"
    language = language id />

Attributes

Attribute nameData typeDescription
idstring(255) The category code for the current news article. When nested within <Betten.Kenmerken>, or within the older nested news (with nesting <Organisation> (root)/<News>/<Article>), this will be the Betten kenmerk code, such as Voe or Stem. Otherwise, the Infront category code, such as Politics.Social, will be used.
descriptionstring(255) The human readable description for the category.
languagelanguage id This attribute is no longer used.

Number of occurences

Unlimited

Occurs within

<Article> | <Categories> | <Betten.Kenmerken>

Can contain

None (element is closed).

See also

<Copyright> | <Destination> | <Exchange> | <Header> | <SubHeader> | <Introduction> | <Organisation> (News) | <Paragraph> | <Sector> (News)