For users looking to use NewsML as a format for storing their data, new sample templates with article fields defined according to the NewsML standard would be very useful. The problem is that the NewsML format is massive, with a number of fields that may or may not be relevant to every publisher.
A listing of the fields described in the short NewsML DTD can be found here:
http://www.newsml.org/IPTC/NewsML/1.2/specification/NewsML_1.2-spec-functionalspec_8.html#sfdtd
More general information about the NewsML 1.2 specification can be found here:
http://www.newsml.org/IPTC/NewsML/1.2/specification/NewsML_1.2-spec-functionalspec_8.html#Struct
