News story markup language and system and process for editing and processing documents

摘要

The present invention defines a news story document format that supports a wide variety of news story information in a structured manner. The news story markup language of the present invention provides constraints to define timing information for a news story, to define machine control commands that may be used to automate control functions, or to associate multiple elements within one or more documents for the purpose of synchronizing the elements. The present invention defines a system and method for editing and processing news story documents.