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U.S. House of Representatives Makes Resolutions in XML

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the about-time dept.

RennieScum writes: "The House of Representatives is turning to technology with their test of XML for use with resolutions according to this article. It reports that the HR has made 100 DTDs and uses Microsoft Word and a special converter to do the job. Testing has begun and their goal is to start using it in January of next year. See also http://xml.house.gov/ And it looks like the DTDs will be free to use and distribute!"

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  1. Stylesheet issues... by jaaron · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's because of the XSL style sheet they use. You can find it at http://xml.house.gov/Members/member-sorter-vb.xsl. (Use view source to see the actual XSLT). Notice that they use VBScript!

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  2. Re:Uhhh.... by MiTEG · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's all screwed up with Opera 6.01 also.

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  3. DTDs, Schema, and XDR by jaaron · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, if you check the source, you'll see that they are using XML namespaces and schemas. Actually, they're using something called XDR (XML-Data-Reduced) which was developed by Microsoft and is upwards compatable with XML schema. I'm familiar with schema but not XDR. For more information, you may want to check out these links:

    And thanks to this poster for pointing it out.
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