IPTC NewsML-G2 standard for the exchange of news and news-related information.

Learn more about its features and who uses it at https://iptc.org/standards/newsml-g2/.

The GitHub repository (https://github.com/iptc/newsml-g2 provides all NewsML-G2 files in the master branch.

This is version 2.34, approved by the IPTC Standards Committee in April 2024 and revised by the IPTC Standards COmmittee (2.34_2) in October 2024..

The files of the current and of previous versions (from 2.23 on) can be retrieved as GitHub releases from https://github.com/iptc/newsml-g2/releases, and also downloaded from https://www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/.

A full history of versions and a list of all changes is available at http://dev.iptc.org/G2-Standards

The NewsML-G2 Implementation Guidelines are available at https://www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/guidelines

The latest NewsML-G2 Specification in HTML is available at https://www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/specification/

XML Schema documentation of the latest version is available in this package under the folder specification/XML-Schema-Doc-Power/

A set of unit tests is included in the tests folder of this repository. See tests/README.md for more information.

For any questions, comments or suggestions, please join the public NewsML-G2 forum at https://groups.io/g/iptc-newsml-g2.