“The House of Representatives is pioneering its shift to
Extensible Markup Language with simple resolutions, which started
in January.“Our goal is to begin production of some introduced bills using
XML by January 2003,” said Joe Carmel, chief of legislative
computer systems. Testing is now under way on XML output of new
bills, he said.“The House last year completed more than 100 document type
definitions (DTDs) for its entire output of bills, resolutions,
correspondence and other production elements…”