[legalxml-courtfiling] Re: [legalxml-sc] [Fwd: [legalxml-comment][Announcement] MetaLex: an Open XML Standard forLegal Sources]

[Rolly Chambers <rlchambers@smithcurrie.com>]

John -

I saw this this morning and looked it over briefly. I'll spend more time
with it.

Here are some initial impressions. It appears to involve legislative
documents rather than the kinds of court documents we have been focusing on.

It uses XML schema rather than a DTD and contemplates the use of RDF.

Some of the overall approaches appear broadly similar to what we have been
proposing in connection with Court Document 1.1. It contemplates easily
incorporating other XML vocabularies. It breaks the body of a document into
structural parts (named article, part, sentence, etc.) in a way that
resembles the use of similar structural elements in CD 1.1 (paragraphGroup,
paragraph, phrase, etc.).

The MetaLex effort is worth a good look and may be particularly helpful in
connection with future versions of an XML Court Document spec.

 I have signed up for the MetaLex discussion list.

I'll provide more details after I have a chance to make a more thorough
review.

Rolly Chambers

----- Original Message -----
From: "John M. Greacen" <john@greacen.net>
To: "Court Filing List" <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>;
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Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:21 AM
Subject: [legalxml-sc] [Fwd: [legalxml-comment] [Announcement] MetaLex: an
Open XML Standard forLegal Sources]


> This should be of particular interest to the Court Document
> subcommittee.  I would appreciate having one of the cochairs review the
> European approach and contrast it for the rest of us with the approach
> that we are taking.  Thanks.
>
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