Hi Sashi, What have you tried so far?
A quick look at the IPTC site and the NITF schema suggests that NITF is well formed XML, so you ought to be able to construct an XSLT stylesheet to turn your data into the simple XML format that simile timeline expects. The stylesheet provided by the IPTC at: <http://www.iptc.org/std/NITF/3.2/examples/nitf-to-html.xsl> Might give you a head start and some ideas. Jon On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, djgang wrote: > > Hi, > > My name is Sashi Gangaraju. > > I am trying to display a list of events from a file which is in NITF > ( News Industry Text Format ). > > I am unable to figure out how to convert this file into a format which > can be read and understood by Simile Timeline so that I can display > the list of things in that particular file on the timeline. > > > Could you please let me know how to convert these files in simile > timeline xml or json format. > > > I am attaching an NITF sample file. > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Regards, > Sashi G > > > > > > Here is the NITF xml file > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE nitf SYSTEM "http://www.nitf.org/IPTC/NITF/3.3/specification/ > dtd/nitf-3-3.dtd"> > <nitf change.date="June 10, 2005" change.time="19:30" version="-// > IPTC//DTD NITF 3.3//EN"> > <head> > <title>Paid Notice: Deaths BLUMENTHAL, MARTIN</title> > <meta content="dn010107" name="slug"/> > <meta content="1" name="publication_day_of_month"/> > <meta content="1" name="publication_month"/> > <meta content="2007" name="publication_year"/> > <meta content="Monday" name="publication_day_of_week"/> > <meta content="Classified" name="dsk"/> > <meta content="7" name="print_page_number"/> > <meta content="B" name="print_section"/> > <meta content="3" name="print_column"/> > <meta content="Paid Death Notices" name="online_sections"/> > <docdata> > <doc-id id-string="1815718"/> > <doc.copyright holder="The New York Times" year="2007"/> > <identified-content> > <person class="indexing_service">BLUMENTHAL, MARTIN</person> > <classifier class="online_producer" > type="types_of_material">Paid Death Notice</classifier> > <classifier class="online_producer" > type="taxonomic_classifier">Top/Classifieds/Paid Death Notices</ > classifier> > </identified-content> > </docdata> > <pubdata date.publication="20070101T000000" ex-ref="http:// > query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? > res=9907E1DE1E3AF932A35752C0A9619C8B63" item-length="179" name="The > New York Times" unit-of-measure="word"/> > </head> > <body> > <body.head> > <hedline> > <hl1>Paid Notice: Deaths BLUMENTHAL, MARTIN</hl1> > </hedline> > </body.head> > <body.content> > <block class="lead_paragraph"> > <p>BLUMENTHAL--Martin. A New York business man and > philanthropist, died last Saturday in Manhattan after a long illness. > He was 90. Mr. Blumenthal was born in Frankfurt, Germany and > immigrated to New York City in 1935. He was President of A.J. > Hollander and Company, a commodities trading firm. After retirement he > devoted himself to philanthropic activities. He was a trustee of the > YMHA and served as chairman of Bezalel, a charitable organization that > supports the arts in Israel. He was also active in Human Rights Watch. > Mr. Blumenthal is survived by his wife, Sallie Blumenthal, his > children Richard of Greenwich and David of Boston, six grandchildren, > his brother Fred and his sister, Edith Levisohn. His first wife Jane > died in 1969. Funeral will take place at Riverside Chapel at 11:30am, > Tuesday January 2nd. $(6$)BLUMENTHAL--Martin. Park Avenue Synagogue > mourns the passing of a devoted congregant. We extend to his wife > Sally and the entire family our heartfelt sympathy. May his memory > remain for a blessing. David H. Lincoln, Sr. Rabbi Amy AB Bressman, > Chairman of the Board Menachem Z. Rosensaft, President</p> > </block> > <block class="full_text"> > <p>BLUMENTHAL--Martin. A New York business man and > philanthropist, died last Saturday in Manhattan after a long illness. > He was 90. Mr. Blumenthal was born in Frankfurt, Germany and > immigrated to New York City in 1935. He was President of A.J. > Hollander and Company, a commodities trading firm. After retirement he > devoted himself to philanthropic activities. He was a trustee of the > YMHA and served as chairman of Bezalel, a charitable organization that > supports the arts in Israel. He was also active in Human Rights Watch. > Mr. Blumenthal is survived by his wife, Sallie Blumenthal, his > children Richard of Greenwich and David of Boston, six grandchildren, > his brother Fred and his sister, Edith Levisohn. His first wife Jane > died in 1969. Funeral will take place at Riverside Chapel at 11:30am, > Tuesday January 2nd. $(6$)BLUMENTHAL--Martin. Park Avenue Synagogue > mourns the passing of a devoted congregant. We extend to his wife > Sally and the entire family our heartfelt sympathy. May his memory > remain for a blessing. David H. Lincoln, Sr. Rabbi Amy AB Bressman, > Chairman of the Board Menachem Z. Rosensaft, President</p> > </block> > </body.content> > </body> > </nitf> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
