<s>
ANPA-1312	B-Language
is	O
a	O
7-bit	O
news	O
agency	O
text	O
markup	O
specification	O
published	O
by	O
the	O
Newspaper	O
Association	O
of	O
America	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
standardize	O
the	O
content	O
and	O
structure	O
of	O
text	O
news	O
articles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
specification	O
was	O
based	O
upon	O
the	O
7-bit	B-Protocol
ASCII	I-Protocol
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
,	O
some	O
characters	O
were	O
declared	O
to	O
be	O
replaced	O
by	O
traditional	O
newspaper	O
characters	O
,	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
Perhaps	O
the	O
best	O
known	O
part	O
of	O
ANPA-1312	B-Language
was	O
the	O
category	O
code	O
system	O
,	O
which	O
allowed	O
articles	O
to	O
be	O
categorized	O
by	O
a	O
single	O
letter	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
sports	O
articles	O
were	O
assigned	O
category	O
S	O
,	O
and	O
articles	O
about	O
politics	O
were	O
assigned	O
P	O
.	O
Many	O
newspapers	O
found	O
the	O
system	O
convenient	O
and	O
sorted	O
both	O
incoming	O
news	O
agency	O
and	O
staff	O
articles	O
by	O
ANPA-1312	B-Language
categories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Superseded	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
1990s	O
by	O
IPTC	O
Information	O
Interchange	O
Model	O
and	O
later	O
by	O
the	O
XML-based	O
News	B-Language
Industry	I-Language
Text	I-Language
Format	I-Language
,	O
ANPA-1312	B-Language
'	O
s	O
popularity	O
in	O
North	O
America	O
remained	O
strong	O
due	O
,	O
in	O
part	O
,	O
to	O
its	O
widespread	O
support	O
by	O
The	O
Associated	O
Press	O
and	O
the	O
reluctance	O
of	O
newspapers	O
to	O
invest	O
in	O
new	O
computers	O
or	O
software	O
modifications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
international	O
standard	O
,	O
IPTC	B-General_Concept
7901	I-General_Concept
,	O
is	O
widely	O
used	O
in	O
Europe	O
and	O
is	O
closely	O
related	O
to	O
ANPA-1312	B-Language
.	O
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