Media API Version 2.2 Build 2.2.1 Preview Release Notes

Deprecated Item Metadata Fields

As part of the retirement of ANPA, this version removes the following ANPA-specific fields from all JSON responses: 

  • Text format (textformat)

  • Transmission reference (altids.transref)

  • Editorial priority (editorialpriority)

These fields were deprecated in early 2021 and are now removed entirely.

 

  Note

 

These fields are not present in NewsML-G2 item metadata. If you are using NewsML-G2, this change will not impact you.

 

 

 

NITF Namespace

This new version adds an XML namespace attribute to the <nitf> XML tag in the NITF XML format available in the API. The addition of the XML namespace makes the NITF valid according to the IPTC specification. If your application performs any NITF parsing (for example, string parsing, XPath expressions or XSLTs), you MUST validate that it continues to function properly and make changes if necessary.

Before (API version 2.1):

<nitf version="-//IPTC//DTD NITF 3.4//EN" change.date="October 18, 2006" change.time="19:30">

After (API version 2.2 with valid NITF):

<nitf xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/NITF/2006-10-18/" version="-//IPTC//DTD NITF 3.4//EN" change.date="October 18, 2006" change.time="19:30">

 

 

 

 

 

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