LegalHTML

LegalHTML is an extension of the HTML language designed for representing legal acts. It provides an explicit domain language addressing all structural aspects of an act such as articles, paragraphs, items and references. It also supports the description of the editorial and jurisdictional history of an act and the semantic annotation of domain entities. Furthermore, LegalHTML addresses the consolidation of an act and its subsequent modifications into a single document using a tree-like representation of the original content and of its modified versions. Finally, a JavaScript API enhances the representation as an active document, enabling the visualization of a consolidated act as it applies at different points in time. The model is proposed as a unifying standard for the semantics of legal documents on one hand and their visual representation on the other hand