Transform XML to State Decoded format

[waldoj]

The easiest path to having the laws ingested by The State Decoded is to convert the XML—presumably via XSLT—to the State Decoded XML format, which is schema-less and pretty straightforward.

[tmcw]

Right now the XML is just XMLized HTML - there's be a bonus parse step before we get to 'semantic' XML, and that'll be the State Decoded format.

[waldoj]

I hadn't even looked at the XML—I was wondering how in the world you managed to turn the HTML into XML so quickly. :)

[tmcw]

The JSON is slightly more semantic - parse.js has an initial shot at a regex for identifying section starts & such.

[tmcw]

@waldoj does the state decoded handle CDATA sections correctly? Right now hacking together some XML output (example, early and needs work) and deciding whether to XML-escape or CDATA-wrap sections with &s.

[waldoj]

I don't know—I've never tried it! The XML is being handled with SimpleXMLElement, which theoretically handles CDATA properly. I escaped ampersands in my testing, though, having not considered that wrapping the content in a CDATA container would have accomplished the same thing.