Årsarkiv: 2004

Part 8: Finishing touches

Postat den 20 december, 2004 av staffan

(The last in a series of blog posts about the tech behind lagen.nu. The other parts are here: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh) URL design: Insired both by ”Cool URIs don’t change” and the general REST emphasis … Läs mer →

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Part 7: Regression testing

Postat den 19 december, 2004 av staffan

(A series of blog posts about the tech behind lagen.nu. Earlier parts are here: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth) Like most developers that have been Test infected, I try to create regression tests whenever I can. A project … Läs mer →

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Part 6: Transforming with XSLT

Postat den 18 december, 2004 av staffan

Now, after having downloaded, analysed and XML-ified the lawtext, theres just one step left: Convert them to HTML. Enter XSLT. XSLT is a complex beast, and I find that it’s better to approach it as a programming language, albeit with … Läs mer →

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Part 5: Finding and formatting inline law references

Postat den 18 december, 2004 av staffan

(Earlier posts: 1, 2, 3, 4) The second part of the convert-things-to-xml approach deals with finding inline references to other paragraphs in the law text. I’ve written about it in part in this blog post, but to recap: Swedish law … Läs mer →

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That’s a load off my {mind,chest,back}

Postat den 16 december, 2004 av staffan

We’re taking a break from our ”the tech behind lagen.nu series (1, 2, 3, 4), to bring you this information: For those of my readers that cannot read swedish, see, or discern text in really blurry pictures, the above images … Läs mer →

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Part 4: Converting stuff to XML

Postat den 16 december, 2004 av staffan

(If you missed part 1-3, they are here, here and here) If you look at a sample law text as they are presented in SFST, they are 100% plaintext. In order to convert them to semantically sensible XML, we must … Läs mer →

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Part 3: Understanding what was fetched

Postat den 15 december, 2004 av staffan

(Earlier posts in this series: here and here) There are a lot of ways to extract data from a HTML file. You can do simple string searching (by the way, why is the python documentation for basic string objects hidden … Läs mer →

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Part 2: Fetching stuff from the web

Postat den 14 december, 2004 av staffan

(A continuation of the series started in this post) Now, the first thing that needs to be done is to actually get the text of the laws from the web. Before that can be done, a list of available laws … Läs mer →

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Lagen.nu behind the scenes

Postat den 13 december, 2004 av staffan

Now that lagen.nu has been out for some time, it might be a good idea to write down what I’ve learned from it so far, in blog form. Much of the discussion will be centered around python, a language I’m … Läs mer →

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Legal document standards, part 2

Postat den 3 december, 2004 av staffan

Rasmus blogs about open standards and open access for law texts, a topic of great interest to me as of lately (or ‘obsession’, apparently . We both agree that there are too little of that, and that the much-heralded open … Läs mer →

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