{"id":58,"date":"2005-02-11T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/11\/bills-and-laws-are-available-in-xml-format\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T15:32:40","slug":"bills-and-laws-are-available-in-xml-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/11\/bills-and-laws-are-available-in-xml-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills and laws are available in XML format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In doing some homework for the <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/index.php?p=56\">REAL ID Act<\/a> for a class, I was reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c109:h418:\">text of the bill<\/a> at the Library of Congress&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/\">excellent Thomas site<\/a> and discovered that the LoC has been <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/home\/xml_help.html\">making new bills available in XML format<\/a> since Feb 2004.  Pretty cool, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Less cool is the fact that HR 418 passed the house yesterday with a solid margin, which sadly included Collin Peterson (my elected member of The Valiant Opposition) voting in favor.  It seems likely that it will go on to pass the senate with little meaningful protest from The Valiant Opposition, to then be signed by Our Most Excellent President.  Sigh.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In doing some homework for the REAL ID Act for a class, I was reading the text of the bill at the Library of Congress&#8217;s excellent Thomas site and discovered that the LoC has been making new bills available in XML format since Feb 2004. Pretty cool, eh? Less cool is the fact that HR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/11\/bills-and-laws-are-available-in-xml-format\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bills and laws are available in XML format&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,1,13,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/03\/23\/massachusetts-may-be-fighting-for-the-freedom-of-all-our-documents-and-our-thoughts\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":0},"title":"Massachusetts may be fighting for the freedom of our documents (and our thoughts)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"23 Mar 05","format":false,"excerpt":"One of Microsoft's major strategies in recent years has been to take control of or subvert standards and licensing mechanisms in ways that ensure that they can throw their considerable weight around in ways that will continue to make life difficult for those in the open source universe. One of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/08\/2-of-many-cool-xmas-presents\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":1},"title":"2 (of many) cool Xmas presents","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Jan 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm trying out the Amazon plugin, so I figured I'd use it to put in a plug for two Christmas prezzies that are pretty cool. First, one of the many excellent CDs I got was Antibalas' Who is this America, which is seriously excellent. 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