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mrspandex on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Republican and Democratic Party Platforms in XML

I wanted two XML files defining issues and stances which I could do a diff on or as the basis of some application. This is just glorified HTML.

dugmartin on Sept 5, 2012 [–]

The problem is any XML schema would be influenced by the opinions of the creator of the schema so you couldn't do a diff and get equally weighted values.

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