The US Code in XML
From this groklaw post, I learned that Cornell University has transformed the entire US Code to XML. Now, I’m not well versed in US Law, but this is basically all federal laws currently in effect in USA, right? This is a very cool project. I’ve started to look around, but seemingly as I only barely can navigate around in swedish law texts, there’s a lot of exploring to be done. If you want to just read the laws, this seems to be a good place to start.
(By the way, could any US law scholar tell me whether the US constitution is a part of USC, or if it’s a separate collection of documents? I cannot seem to find them, only references to it.)
As I’ve been working on a project with similar goals for the last few months, I’m particularly interested in the XML format looks. I’ve only started to scratch the surface, but initially it seems to be somewhat more presentation-oriented (and way more complex) than the simple structures I use.
Maybe this format could be used anyway, or at least a XSLT transformation to transfer from Lagen.nu-ML (not yet documented) to uscfrag.
Tags: rättsinformation, XML