PBS Developer Downloads
Page last updated: 6 July 2020
PBS Schedule
The Department of Health 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 30MB)
- Schema documentation
- Schema Archive
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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 (Test)
Text Extracts (Test) derived directly from the v3.0 PBS XML.
PBS SQLite (Beta)
For developers that have been using the text files, you should find the PBS data in SQLite format functional and elegant. The format is widely supported by common programming tools and even the free SQLite Manager for Firefox is a powerful enough environment for many operations.
However, before using SQLite in production it is important to understand this format has had much less scrutiny than the text files or the XML. So even though the SQLite data is generated from the exact same source data as the pbs.gov.au website, please check carefully when using SQLite in production.
PBS API (Beta)
The PBS API has been used by Allette Systems since July 2011 and was made available to developers in August 2012. The API powers the PBS Website, mobile PBS Website and is used to create the PDF Schedules and Summary of Changes.
