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In a nutshell:
- Consider the whole process: pre-legislative to legal archiving
- Built standards that must last forever; later systems
- Consider using professional "xml typographers"; i.e., forget
about teaching people that will never learn or building overcomplicated
"user friendly" systems
Thanks to Tomas Carrasco
Some links
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3889 -
section 4.4. Seamless Legislative System (a sort overview)
http://xml.house.gov
http://www.xml.gov
Welcome (http://xml.house.gov )
The
purpose of this website is to provide information about the ongoing work of the
U.S. House of Representatives in relation to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Under the direction of the Senate Committee
on Rules and Administration and the House
Committee on Administration, the Secretary
of the Senate and the Clerk of the House
have worked together with the Congressional
Research Service, the Library of Congress
and the Government Printing Office to create
Document Type Definition files (DTDs) for use in the creation of legislative
documents using XML.
As this is an ongoing project, it is important to note that the DTDs and
examples presented here have not been finalized and may be extended over time.
Roll Call Votes are currently available in XML at the Office of the Clerk's
website and legislation prepared in XML (starting in January 2004) is available
at thomas.loc.gov.
Drafting Legislation Using XML at
the U.S. House of Representatives provides additional information about the
history of drafting legislation at the House and current efforts to create an
authoring application.
The U.S. House participated in the World
e-Parliament Conference 2008. A copy
of the presentation made at the conference is available here.
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