Re: [legalxml-econtracts] Autonumbering - a non-issue

[Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>]

John McClure wrote:

>Jason said:
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>>I'm not sure i get what you are driving at here.  I've always used
>>stylesheets to apply appropriate numbering to the clauses - you might
>>call this autonumbering.  This way, if you edit the contract and move a
>>clause or promote or demote it, it will automatically get the correct
>>new number.
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>>One of the questions we haven't discussed yet, is whether there is a
>>need to be able to explicitly number each clause (ie if you don't want
>>to leave this to your stylesheet).
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>Actually, we have discussed this important question ALOT. 
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I meant we haven't discussed it in our teleconferences.

I agree that when people digitally sign a contract, they'll want to sign 
some "presentation form".

The scenario in which auto numbering is very important is negotiation. 
 If two parties are trying to negotiate a contract, they'll be 
exchanging drafts.  And they will _not_ want to manually number the 
clauses in the draft contract.  they don't do that with Word, and they 
don't need to do it with XML Contracts.