NITF/Atom/NewsML extensions for FeedAPI

For more information or to ask questions about this proposal, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/9758.

News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).

This is a foundational piece that's needed for Drupal to be a longterm solution to many news-handling requirements of news publishers, who increasingly are flocking to Drupal as a website solution.