Introduction

This documentation describes the Lawmaker data model. Lawmaker uses XML compliant with the Akoma Ntoso (AKN) schema with some limited extensions.

This documentation includes:

• General principles and naming conventions
• Lawmaker extensions to Akoma Ntoso
• @class values and their role
• Element ID Scheme
• Lawmaker Element Dictionary

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Background

The origin of this documentation is the prototype Element Catalog

It was originally created as a dokuwiki site but then converted to markdown using https://alldocs.app/convert-dokuwiki-to-markdown.

For alternative approaches, see general information about extending and restricting Akoma Ntoso.