Based on feedback from IPTC Meeting of Oct. 11.
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Globalization Improvements |
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Too many properties specific to North American sports / the English Language are hard-wired into the DTD |
More attribute values changed to CDATA, with suggested controlled vocabularies moved to the Resource Files |
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Team names aren't always just referred-to by a location-name and a nickname |
New <name> element holds more generic full-name, first-name, last-name, and nickname |
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Different versions of a person's name are often used, for display within different languages |
<name> element also has language attribute. More than one <name> element is allowed |
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Structural Improvements |
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Feedback |
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Auxilliaries are generally team- or player-related |
Auxilliary element now moved to child of team or player. Also, renamed auxiliary to be “associate” |
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Incorporated articles might just show up within NewsML envelope |
Optional article-ref attribute added to <article> |
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Qualifiers actually cover two different styles of properties: sport-coverage and data coverage |
Properties split up. sport-coverage items now modify particular sport content-codes. data-coverage items now fall under event-, tournament-, standing-, and other -metadata elements. |
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Better if some document-level metadata "percolates" lower down into lower parts of the document. This way a SportsML content item can cover more than one sport. |
sports-content-codes element replicated into standing-, schedule-, and statistic-metadata |
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Packaging Improvements |
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Feedback |
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Tournament elements needs better definitions / guidelines / examples |
Documentation added. tournament-heat removed (since an <event> subcomponent can be used) |
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Before releasing SportsML 0.5, improve the documentation and examples |
We're doing both. |
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Simplicity Improvements |
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Feedback |
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Better to keep as much in the common DTD, to minimize one-offs within specific DTDs |
More properties to be "percolated up" where possible. Added
sub-score, sub-score-attempts, and outcome-totals to the main DTD. |
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Remove some of the rigidity from the DTD |
Hardwired attributes such as period-1, period-2, etc., have been removed. |