Abstract. The Norme in rete (NIR) [Legislation on the Net] national project aims at making easier the retrieval and the navigation between legal documents in a distributed environment and to encourage the development of systems with characteristics of interoperability and effective of use. In order to obtain this, two standards have been defined: a URN standard, to identify these materials through uniform names, and XML-DTDs to describe legislative documents within the NIR domain. In this paper the definition of such standards and the developments of tools aimed at making easier their adoption are illustrated. Particularly this paper presents a specific law drafting environment, NIREditor, able to produce legal documents and to handle legacy legislative documents according to the NIR standards.
The NIR project aims at making retrieval and navigation among normative documents in a distributed environment easier. To obtain this, XML and URN standards for normative documents have been established and the construction of tools working on these standards is promoted. Particularly, NIREditor, a specific drafting environment able to deal with new and legacy normative documents has been developed.
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