Re: [legalxml-econtracts-comment] Public Comment

[Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>]

Hello Adrian

The short answer is we don't yet have a schema/DTD you can simply download.

The longer answer is more interesting...

As you might have seen from the eContracts list, conceptually we
distinguish between the "structure" and the "semantics".

The "structure" addresses how the words of the contract - headings,
paragraphs, schedule etc - are represented.

The "semantics" addresses how things of interest to some particular
vertical will be marked up.

The structural part is currently being finalised by an informal
sub-committee, using a subset of XHTML 2 (which is currently in draft form).

So, we'll be using <section> to capture a clause, with <h> for heading
(if it has one), <p> for its paragraphs, and <section> recursively for
any nested sub-clauses.

Bottom line for structure is that if you start using XHTML 2 in the
manner described above, your representation is likely to be close to 
what the TC ultimately recommends.

kind regards

Jason


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> My name is Adrian, and as I am going to use a legalXML standard for a project to implement contractual documents, where can I find the XML schema/DTD for this XML standard? 
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