RE: [legalxml-ms] LegalXML specifications

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

Please permit me a few additions to what Mr. Greacen has correctly
stated. 

There is no "current open-source 'Legalxml' markup language." There are
LegalXML Open Standards, which are schemas (and in perhaps some cases
dtd's) that can be used with programming languages to create
permissibly either proprietary or open source software.

The Standards allow software developers to create tools and applications
that are interoperable and enable similar or parallel API's. 

If you are looking for open source software and tools, you are not in
the right place. If you wish to help develop the standards around which
such tools can be built, then you are most welcome to join our
organization.

Thank you.

Best regards.

John Messing
LegalXML Member Section Chair

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [legalxml-ms] LegalXML specifications
> From: "John Greacen" <greacenjmg@earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, April 20, 2007 3:08 pm
> To: "'David L. Bjorgaard'" <dlb@bjorgaardlaw.com>
> Cc: <legalxml-ms@lists.oasis-open.org>, "Robin Gibson"
> <Robin.Gibson@courts.mo.gov>, "'Rex McElrath'" <mcelratr@gaaoc.us>,
> "'Winters, Roger'" <Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV>, "'Mary McRae'"
> <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
> 
> There are two LegalXML specifications for marking up legal documents -
> Court Document 1.1 developed by the Electronic Court Filing Technical
> Committee almost five years ago and the recent eContracts
> specification developed by the eContracts Technical Committee the end
> of last year. Both specifications can, I believe, be obtained from the
> OASIS webpages for those Technical Committees. I am copying Robin
> Gibson to make sure that Court Document 1.1 can be obtained from the
> ECFTC website. Both specifications are available for public use. To my
> knowledge there is no application software supporting either
> specification. The Court Documents Subcommittee of the Electronic
> Court Filing Technical Committee, co-chaired by Rex McElrath and Roger
> Winters, are working on a successor specification to Court Document
> 1.1. I encourage you to join their effort - or at least to contact
> them to learn more about it.