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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W ork of Documents Subcommittee
From: "Winters, Roger" <>
To: 'John Messing' <>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:57:47 -0700
Title: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W ork of Documents Subcommittee
John,
I've no doubt that it would be a hard sell for many people, not just judges, to go to paragraph numbering as a method of citations. That is part of the reason that idea hasn't moved very far very fast in the several years since I first heard it mentioned.
I am always on the lookout for a "BOTH/AND" solution to a problem, rather than "EITHER/OR." I think it will be important for us to continue to recognize the importance of physical appearance and structure of legal documents for most users--we must continue to press to perfect the science and art of displaying electronic documents using XML. I don't see that ever going away - people want the reassurance they are looking at the same thing, that we are "on the same page," as we know.
Perhaps the proposal for paragraph IDs is best made as an ADDITIONAL method that can be employed in support of citing information in electronic documents. Where the formatting tools don't work correctly, the IDs can come to the rescue? I think the usefulness of this method would have to rest in large part on its being effortless - that is, people should not consciously have to count the paragraphs in the documents they create - that should be done automatically, employing a standard method.
Roger
Roger Winters
King County
Department of Judicial Administration
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