RE: [docbook-publishers] Legal citations (I'll stop after this!)

["Hanratty, John (LNG-LON)" <john.hanratty@lexisnexis.co.uk>]

Hi Dave,

Yes, there's a lot of trumpet-blowing on the site, but the idea of a
"neutral cite" is one where the reporter series does not form part of
the cite, i.e. there's no reference to a volume or issue number. These
guys are, I suppose merely substituting their URL for the reportercite,
and I'm not suggesting we incorporate any URLs in our citation model,
but the idea of a neutral cite is useful and widespread. The second
resource I circulated (which the first led me to) is "cleaner".
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/citation/ucg/index.html

As you can see, there is no reporter/series number, hence "neutral"
cite.

John Hanratty 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com] 
Sent: 18 February 2008 11:44
To: Hanratty, John (LNG-LON)
Cc: docbook-publishers@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-publishers] Legal citations (I'll stop after
this!)

On 18/02/2008, Hanratty, John (LNG-LON) <john.hanratty@lexisnexis.co.uk>
wrote:

> I just found this website which publishes a specification for a 
> "neutral
> cite":

Neutral? Not really John.
Who owns the website?
How many nationalities does it support?

>
> We are happy to announce that we now offer our users the ability to 
> cite judicial opinions and statutes on our Web site using a standard 
> and vendor neutral format.

US centric?


>
> The importance of electronic sources in American law is  ...

I for one would prefer XML markup rather than an owned website which
seems to do little for a markup standard?

regards


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