Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted Building a Web-Based Legislative Editor, at his Legix.info blog.
Here are excerpts from the post:
With HTML5, it is now possible to build a full fledged browser-based legislative editor. For the past few months I have been building a prototype legislative editor in HTML5 that uses Akoma Ntoso as its XML schema. The results have been most gratifying. Certainly, building such an editor is no easy task. Having been working in this subject for 10 years now I have all the issues well internalized and can navigate the difficulties that arise. But I have come a long way towards achieving the holy grail of legislative editors – a web-based, standards-based, browser-neutral solution. [...]
Our plan is to use this prototype for the [International Legislation] Unhackathon at UC Hastings and Stanford Law School on May 19th and then in follow-on events elsewhere. In a few days I will provide a link to the prototype for everyone to try it out. It’s still early days and the editor is far from being a complete and robust tool suitable for production, but what I have now confirms my belief that the next generation of legislative systems will be web-based and built on open-standards.
In my next post I will provide a little mini-tutorial to set the stage for the upcoming pre-beta release.
For more information, please see the complete post.
HT @arihersh.
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