PDF, of course, is not an elegant means of passing information. The prospect of an industry-accepted Legal XML standard is much more elegant. Over the past year and a half the GSU project has advocated the creation and use of industry-standard legal SGML or XML DTDs. In November 1998, GSU began hosting the Legal XML Workgroup on a university listserve. Presently, our numbers are around 40-45 and are growing.
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Contact me if you would like to join the list and have access to the password protected website. I am a lawyer . A combination of both legal and technical skills, I hope, will allow me to bring a unique perspective to the creation of technical standards for signing XML documents. While a combination of legal and technical skills may allow me to bring a unique perspective to this effort, it is also a limitation. My technical knowledge is not nearly as advanced as many, if not all, of the people on this list.