Resource Inventory & Status

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Legal-XHTML Documents

• 2005-04: [PDF]
  Legal XHTML Overview - Working Draft
  This document provides an overview of the Legal-XHTML design. Status: Needs to be reviewed and reworked in some areas; this document was published almost two XHTML-2 Working Drafts ago.
• 2005-04: [Module] [PDF]
  Legal XHTML Module and Guidelines - Working Draft
  This document provides guidelines for each of the XHTML2 tags, covering also the Legal-XHTML module which contains all six XML tags recommended for use in legal and other documents encoded using XHTML2. Status: Needs to be reviewed and reworked in some areas; this document was published almost two XHTML-2 Working Drafts ago, and prior to ontology work found at Legal-RDF.org. Also, the copyright in the Legal XHTML module needs to be updated for the Creative Commons license being used (see above).

Samples of Legal Document in XHTML2 ....Under Construction

• 2006-01: [XHTML] [PDF]
  Birth/Death Certificates
  From the state of Washington, this sample shows basic concepts of encoding legal documents in XHTML2, particularly the use of the rdf:about attribute, which identifies the individual that the certifcate concerns.
• 2006-01: [XHTML] [PDF]
  Lease Contract
  A simple lease contract demonstrating basic lease markup requirements.
• 2006-01: [XHTML] [PDF]
  Law Establishing a Committee
  From the state of Washington, this sample shows basic concepts of marking up a law, encoding (a) definitions of terms in a legal document; (b) definitions of a class of things that the law is about; (c) statements of facts about a class of things.