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Attached is a DTD that I developed in 1999-2000 for use with US Courts of Appeal opinions. The idea was to implement this as part of Emory Law School's 11th circuit collection. It was never implemented.

Citation formats are an odd sort of thing: people have very different expectations as

Background

The Legal Information Institute was founded in 1992 at the Cornell Law School.  It was the first web site to offer legal information freely on the Internet.

A Wikipedia article about it is here.

Full current text of the US Code, in XML, derived from GPO locator data.  Possibly to be supplanted soon by an XML version from the House itself, for which we believe SAIC has been contracted (Sept 08).

Available from: http://voodoo.law.cornell.edu/uscxml/

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The United States Code section number
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