The US House of Representatives has been using XML to draft legislation. The brief article gives more information about how the House has transitioned to using a WYSIWYG XML environment. XML works particularly well for this application because the legislative documents are highly structured. Unfortunately, the documents that most of us work on are not this structured, so its hard to tell if there are any lessons to be found for other organizations.
Update: Here's another article on a similar subject: the EU's use of XML. They have all sorts of interesting issues, not the least of which is supporting multiple languages.
Posted by Karl
February 4, 2004 02:17 PM