On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Harrowell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 08:59:50 Francis Davey wrote: > >> >> It would be great if some legislature did this right, then we could >> point at it when arguing with the others. Estonia? >> > > When I mentioned this to Daniel "dsquared" Davies, he pointed to the German > Bundestag's Web site. But looking back at it, it looks like a really, really > good and comprehensive index for debates and documentation - with the actual > texts safely locked up in PDF files. Grrr.
I guess it was a reference to the eNorm stuff? http://www.enorm.bund.de >From what I know, for the law drafting part of eNorm, it's mostly a MS Office plugin used by the editors to ensure they enter structured data (which is I think a quite pragmatic and valid approach). But maybe they are not at a state where they publish the resulting xml to the web (which is a shame because it shouldn't cost them much). When I was at an Official Gazette conference [1] few years ago, it looked like they were one of the most advanced countries in that area (editing laws as structured document). Benoit [1] the presentation of enorm I've seen, in french: http://www.legalaccess.eu/spip.php?article51&artsuite=0 _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
