[EM] Why is XML perfect?

[matt at tidalwave.net]

On 30 Sep 2002 at 9:33, Narins, Josh wrote:

> .... Here is a _well-formed_ (1) and _0valid (2) XML document for voting.
> 
> Comments?

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards 
(OASIS) has an Election Markup Language (EML) proposal written by their Election 
and Voter Services Technical Committee  which was last updated Sept. 25 (see 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/ ).  It accommodates preference 
ballots (it lists STV as one of the recognized voting methods).

They are also suggesting some standardization of the basic terminology:  An 
"election event" consists of one or more "elections".  Each election consists of one 
or more "contests" (different contests for the same election when electing more than 
one candidate based on geography).  Each contest has one or more "candidates" or 
"options".
>.... 

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