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The CEN Workshop on an Open XML Interchange Format for Legal and Legislative Resources (MetaLex), declares, by way of its title, an interest in legal and legislative resources. CEN MetaLex aims to standardize the way in which sources of law and references to sources of law are to be represented in XML.

The standard will enable public administrations to link legal information from various levels of authority and different countries and languages. Moreover, the standard will enable companies that are active in the field of legal knowledge systems to connect to and use legal content in their applications, which allows them to support a much larger market. An open interchange format will also protect customers of such companies from vendor lock in. Finally, the standard will help to improve transparency and accessibility of legal content for citizens and businesses.

CEN MetaLex is an interchange format, a lowest common denominator for other standards, intended not to replace jurisdiction-specific standards and vendor-specific formats in the publications process but to impose a standardized view on legal documents for the purposes of information exchange and interoperability in the context of software development.

To meet these requirements, MetaLex defines a mechanism for schema extension, adding metadata, cross referencing, constructing compound documents and a basic naming convention.

Consult the latest version of the Workshop Agreement, or the latest proposal for more information.

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