The USLM 2.x schema has moved out of draft status. Please see the main branch.
Version 2.0.12 of the schema including an updated table module is now available in the main branch.
Version 2.17 of the CSS is now available in the main branch.
An updated version of the USLM 2.x Review Guide is now available in the main branch.
In support of the United States Legislative Branch XML Working Group and in accordance with 2 U.S.C. 181, the Government Publishing Office (GPO) is making the United States Legislative Markup (USLM) XML schema available as an authoritative source on GitHub.
Approved versions of the schema are in the main branch. If there are proposed changes to the schema, the changes will be in a proposed branch as a new draft version of the schema. A major.minor.point structure is used to identify the schema version, and the schema version is recorded as an attribute at the root level. The point number is incremented to indicate a non-breaking change while the minor number is incremented to indicate a breaking change. Breaking changes will only be implemented after all other options have been exhausted. Please refer to CHANGELOG.md for a summary of changes.
As needed, a proposed branch will be created from the main branch. In addition to the files from the main branch, the proposed branch may also contain draft versions of the USLM 2.x schema, draft sample files, and draft CSS files.
Please refer to the USLM User Guide in PDF or Markdown and the USLM 2.x Review Guide in PDF or Markdown for additional information about the schema.
To submit feedback, questions, or comments, please open a GitHub issue.