| I find it amusing that here in Germany, we have that for years: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ All laws are available in XML, HTML, PDF, etc. The site also provides an RSS feed. In addition, some enthusiasts regularily download stuff from there and apply those to a Git repository: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze That way, this repository contains not only the current laws, but also the history of how the laws developed! For the Git repository, the XML version is not used directly, but converted to markdown. This produces very readable diffs: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/commit/f90e8fc8eb20f081... Wouldn't it be cool if we could finally manage our laws of filing pull requests? |
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/developer/formats/
XML, HTML, RDF/XML for everything, as well as browsable online (often with original source PDFs of the printed laws), with both online and RDF/XML representations showing all alterations to the law (with date, cross-reference to the Act that made the amendment, etc.).
The website is one of the big success stories of RDF, IMO, as it is all based around a model of the laws in RDF, with everything else just being varying serializations thereof. It also allows the website to show what has been amended — no need for dumping stuff to GitHub and then diffing it! (e.g., see the annotation on 28(1)c in http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/part/IV)
That all said, there tends to be a delay between the PDF being uploaded and everything being marked up and entered into the RDF database (see the "new legislation" on the home page).