Drafting

Legislative Content Management & Regulatory Content Management

LIMS' Legislative Drafting Environment is a set of functions designed to help legislative drafters work in a structured environment. Integrated to an XML editor, this module reduces time spent on page formatting and other mechanical tasks. Legislative drafters can therefore concentrate their efforts on content, thereby improving the overall drafting experience. Drafters are hence relieved of many tedious and time-consuming tasks and can easily find and repurpose existing provisions.

 

 

 

Key features

  • Automatic provision numbering and renumbering with synchronization of internal references
  • Intelligent provision insertion routines
  • Legislative modification generation tool
  • Explanatory notes generator
  • Automatic table of contents generation
  • Advanced XML copy-pasting feature
  • Smart functions to help working with XML structure (provision promote, demote, merge, split, etc.)
  • Comments, highlights, and footnotes for drafting notes
  • Multilingual drafting functions, side-by-side viewing, assisted translation of standard forms of legislative modification, etc.
  • Seamless integration with Irosoft's content management solution, and LIMS' publishing module

All of these functions are adapted to meet your specific needs and your legislative drafting guide.

Benefits and applications

Normalization

The content is generated by drafters while formatting is managed by centralized style sheets. This imposes the normalization of a document's format within the system and when it is published (drafts & final versions, intranet, website, etc.). Moreover, the legislative modification generation tool helps respect the organization's formulation standards.

Better Drafting Experience

Reduce time lost in

  • Provision indentation, page breaks, page numbering, and other style formatting irritants
  • Renumbering and internal references adjustments

Legislative drafters can hence concentrate their efforts on their field of expertise.

Structured documents

The Legislative Drafting Environment is integrated in an XML editor application. The result of the drafting process is a structured and semantically enhanced XML file. The richness of these files can be used later in the legislative process, making complex tasks possible, such as semi-automatic consolidation.

Specifications

  • Windows XP or later (32 and 64 bit)
  • Native integration with PTC Arbortext Editor
  • XML