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1 Introduction
AKOMA NTOSO 1.0 Schema
Release 09 December 2009
Technical Supervision: Fabio Vitali - University of Bologna
Legal Domain Supervision: Monica Palmirani - University of Bologna
This document introduces and explains the schema for AKOMA NTOSO 1.0, an XML-based document format for legislative documents in African countries. More details about the background and rationale of this project and of the design methodology can be found in the AKOMA NTOSO web site, www.akomantoso.org.
In this document we provide technical details and assumptions about the AKOMA NTOSO 1.0 document structure and elements, as well as some hints for document markup using this schema. The final document describes two different but connected families of schema. The first is the AKOMA NTOSO general schema, a vocabulary and a minimal set of constraints that all AKOMA NTOSO documents must comply to. A set of stricter schemas, the AKOMA NTOSO custom schemas, provide more constraints over the same vocabulary of elements to enforce the rules of specific document types in specific African countries. It is a requirement of AKOMA NTOSO that all documents satisfying one of the custom schemas also satisfy the general schema.
In this release only the general schema is described in full. Thus, except when explicitly mentioned, all rules are expected to refer to the general schema (and thus to all AKOMA NTOSO documents).