The entire US Code is now online in XML

Re:The entire US Code is now online in XML by tianhe on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:28PM (#6135847)

I think the most time consuming part of the conversion is from text to digital. That's what took so long.

Interchanging formats should be relatively easy. Back in 1999, json wasn't even around.

IMO in today's API centric, and javascript ruled world. json would be a lot more useful.

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Re:The entire US Code is now online in XML by chc on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:05PM (#6136097)

Given that it can be mechanically converted to JSON, I have a hard time seeing how JSON would be a lot more useful. "Very slightly more convenient" seems like the most we could reasonably say.

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Re:The entire US Code is now online in XML by pseingatl on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:55PM (#6136435)

I wonder why. The U.S. Code was in electronic format by the 1980's. The Air Force had FLITE, Justice had Juris, and then there's Lexis and Nexis.

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