Reuters have released NewsML Toolkit v1.0,
developed in conjunction with David Megginson, to assist in creating
applications for the NewsML news publishing framework.
The open source toolkit, licensed under the LGPL, is a set of Java classes
that aid the accessing and manipulation of NewsML documents. It requires an
installed XML parser, such as Apache Xerces, to run.
The toolkit contains a set of interfaces for accessing NewsML, and an
implementation of them based on the DOM. Complementary tools to be released by
Reuters in the future include a conformance checking tool, which provides
logical validation above and beyond that provided by a DTD, and an application
level toolkit, which according to Reuters will "allow the user to pose queries
from a news perspective and 'prune' NewsItems in order to keep only selected
content."