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5M EUR wasted on an open source editor for writing legislation: https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/actions/open-source-software-editing-legislation_en https://ec.europa

by zoobab 5y ago

5M EUR wasted on an open source editor for writing legislation: https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/actions/open-source-software-editing-legislation_en https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/actions/open-source-software-editi... Git and Markdown would do a better job, XML is insane.

samsonradu 5y ago
XML is not insane, actually it’s an open standard for writing legal documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso Legal text is not prose, it does have structure and metadata attached to it.