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DC Law - statutes and code - in xml format. (project: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law)

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-01-03 · latest 2026-10-28

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  1. DC did this years ago, too: https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-xml Someone set it up for Philly and Baltimore too, but I can't seem to find it.
    comment by timwis · 2026-10-28 · in Git for the US Code
  2. Direct link to the repo for DC's laws: https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-xml
    comment by neuronexmachina · 2025-03-25 · in German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
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    District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo
    story by taaron · 2025-02-11 · 3 comments
  4. The District of Columbia uses Git to track law changes as well. https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-xml Similarly, the entire German Federal law can be found on Github: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
    comment by Deukhoofd · 2022-05-17 · in Ask HN: Why hasn't Git been adopted outside of software engineering?
  5. …steps in this direction, with XML representations of their statutes and codes available on GitHub: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml And they do accept[1] pull requests apparently! [1] - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how…
    comment by jka · 2020-09-11 · in Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges
  6. …the DC Council uses our software to codify and publish their laws in xml and html on github: https://github.com/dccouncil/dc-law-xml . If you're interested in getting your government's laws published using git in human- and…
    comment by dgreisen · 2019-10-24 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
  7. Washington, DC officially keeps its changes in Github: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...
    comment by jaymmartin · 2019-10-23 · in US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
  8. The only relevant link on the article https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml
    comment by gcb0 · 2018-11-26 · in How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
  9. Here's the original pull request: https://github.com/DCCouncil/dc-law-xml/pull/134/files The text already mentioned "The Freedom of Information Act of 1976" unambiguously, but the metadata was incorrect.
    comment by lozenge · 2018-11-25 · in How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
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    DC Law – Statutes and Code – In XML Format
    story by justinnhli · 2018-11-25 · 0 comments
  11. …our xml format. You can see the beta version for our first partner, the District of Columbia, here: https://github.com/dccouncil/dc-law-xml/tree/development (feedback welcome). As we partner with more jurisdictions, we will build a…
    comment by dgreisen · 2017-01-03 · in Why isn't there a Google for the law?