PBS Developer Downloads
Page last updated: 20 October 2020
The Department of Health and Aged Care is modernising the consumption and data distribution model for the monthly PBS Schedule data. In the future, PBS Schedule data will be distributed in a relational format that is more readily consumable and predictable. The Department will cease to provide ALL existing forms of data currently distributed to vendors at an agreed point in time. More information is available on the PBS Data Distribution Project page. Subscribe to the PBS Developer email list to receive email notification of PBS Developer News available through this website. |
---|
PBS Schedule
The Department of Health and Aged Care publishes the PBS Schedule on the first day of every month in a variety of electronic formats, including;
- PBS.gov.au
- PDF publications
- XML and Text Files
- PC, Mac and ISO 'offline versions'
- PBS Publications Archive contains previous months PDF, XML and Text files.
XML Schema
The PBS XML Schema is released in a distribution package. The package contains the (normative) RELAX-NG schema, (non-normative) versions of the schema in RELAX-NG compact format and W3C XML Schemas format, support files, sample instance documents and documentation.
- Download the schema (ZIP 10MB) - pbs-3.1.12-314 - published 13 October 2020
- Schema documentation
- Schema Archive
-
Version 2.12 of the schema has been deprecated, see information on legacy XML.
XSL Stylesheets
XSL stylesheets are provided to transform PBS XML v2.12 to text extracts. The XSL stylesheets will not work with version 3.0 PBS XML.
- Download Stylesheets (ZIP 1MB)
- Release notes
- How to use the XSL stylesheets
- Stylesheet Archive
- PBS Text files Readme file
Text Extracts (v3)
Text Extracts derived directly from the v3.0 PBS XML.