The <Sector> Element

Description

The sector information for the current news <Article>; there can be several sectors for one article. This element is only used for non-nested news articles.

Note 1 News sectors differ from organisation sectors.

Note 2 Depending on the parent element (<FtseSectors> or <Sectors>), the interpretation of the values for id and description will be different.

<Sector
    id = "string(255)"
    description = "string(255)" />

Attributes

Attribute nameData typeDescription
idstring(255) The Infront or FTSE news sector code, such as News.RealEstate, see Sector codes.
descriptionstring(255) The human readable description for this sector. Only available for FTSE codes.

Number of occurences

Unlimited

Occurs within

<Sectors> | <FtseSectors>

Can contain

None (element is closed).

See also

<Category> | <Destination> | <Exchange> | <Organisation> (News) | Sector codes