<s>
News	B-Language
Industry	I-Language
Text	I-Language
Format	I-Language
(	O
NITF	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
XML	B-Protocol
specification	I-Protocol
designed	O
to	O
standardize	O
the	O
content	O
and	O
structure	O
of	O
individual	O
text	O
news	O
articles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
NITF	O
files	O
are	O
XML	B-Protocol
,	O
they	O
can	O
be	O
easily	O
parsed	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
transformed	O
via	O
XSLT	B-Application
to	O
other	O
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Newspapers	O
such	O
as	O
The	O
New	O
York	O
Times	O
,	O
amongst	O
others	O
,	O
news	O
agencies	O
such	O
as	O
Associated	O
Press	O
and	O
Agence	O
France-Presse	O
,	O
and	O
archival	O
services	O
such	O
as	O
LexisNexis	B-Library
use	O
NITF	O
for	O
inter-agency	O
transmission	O
of	O
news	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
internal	O
transmission	O
and	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NITF	O
complements	O
NewsML-G2	O
an	O
IPTC	O
XML	B-Protocol
format	O
for	O
bundling	O
and	O
transmitting	O
news	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
started	O
out	O
as	O
a	O
SGML	B-Language
specification	O
prior	O
to	O
its	O
XML	B-Protocol
incarnation	O
.	O
</s>
