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Federal Register goes XML -- at last (Improves grant visibility and content customization)
White House open government initiative helps produce new version of Federal Register.

bdpatoday--Federal Computer Week (FCW)  reports the Federal Register is now available in a format that lets readers browse, reorganize, and electronically customize the publication's daily contents, White House officials announced today.

Issues of the Federal Register are now available at Data.gov and GPO.gov in the XML format, according to the White House. XML is a machine readable form of text that can be manipulated to work with digital applications making so people can access and analyze its contents in custom ways.

The Government Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration collaborated with the White House open government initiative to produce the new version, White House officials said.
 
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XML 

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. For example, computer makers might agree on a standard or common way to describe the information about a computer product (processor speed, memory size, and so forth) and then describe the product information format with XML. Such a standard way of describing data would enable a user to send an intelligent agent (a program) to each computer maker's Web site, gather data, and then make a valid comparison. XML can be used by any individual or group of individuals or companies that wants to share information in a consistent way.
 
XML, a formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is similar to the language of today's Web pages, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Both XML and HTML contain markup symbols to describe the contents of a page or file. HTML, however, describes the content of a Web page (mainly text and graphic images) only in terms of how it is to be displayed and interacted with. For example, the letter "p" placed within markup tags starts a new paragraph. XML describes the content in terms of what data is being described. For example, the word "phonenum" placed within markup tags could indicate that the data that followed was a phone number. This means that an XML file can be processed purely as data by a program or it can be stored with similar data on another computer or, like an HTML file, that it can be displayed. For example, depending on how the application in the receiving computer wanted to handle the phone number, it could be stored, displayed, or dialed.
 
XML is "extensible" because, unlike HTML, the markup symbols are unlimited and self-defining.  
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