Dynamic News Stories (O'Reilly)

[Posted May 24, 2006 by cook]

Adrian Holovaty uses XML to format news stories. "I like structured data. My favorite projects tend to be those that deal with, and exploit, structured information: events, restaurants, crime, and political information. But one thing that's always bothered me is that the bread-and-butter of my chosen field, journalism, is relentlessly unstructured. The primary product of journalists -- the news story -- is just a giant blob of text."