Question on strike and insert bill texts

[iita-atii]

How to know which portion of a bill text XML structure is stricken and which portion is the rewrite?

changed does not seem to always accurately reflect this.

amendment-* blocks tend to wrap both portions.

reported-display-style seems the most promising but the rewrite text style is often set at the highest level and not applied to the stricken section by some mechanism i cannot find.

I know it's there as the resulting bills always have the correct text styling applied to each portion but can't find a consistent approach when traversing the XML.

[jonquandt]

@iita-atii - moved issue to this repository, since it's related to the Bill XML specifically and not really an API question.

You may want to look at https://xml.house.gov, specifically here https://xml.house.gov/#dtd for some additional information on the bill dtd elements and their values.

For example, https://xml.house.gov/amendment-block.html provides some additional information about the changed element within amendment-block

[iita-atii]

Nice, sorry didn't realize this was an available repo. I'll take a look around in those docs, much nicer than looking at the raw dtd!

[iita-atii]

hey @jonquandt, is there any place outside of the .xls files the effects of different style attributes (appropriation, defense, OLC, etc) are documented?

Also, the documentation is missing for appropriations-major/intermediate/small did this maybe replace appropriations-para? And some attributes are missing like reported-display-style but not a big deal I realize most efforts are probably being pointed towards USLM work.

[jonquandt]

@iita-atii - after consulting with some colleagues, the web styles documented in the XSLT files are probably your best bet.

You can see what those look like here:
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLS/resources/billres-details.xsl
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLS/resources/billres.xsl
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLS/resources/table.xsl

billres-details.xsl will probably have the most information. For example, on line 3960, there is a directive that applies if reported-display-style and changed are both set:

<xsl:when
     test="(@deleted-display-style = 'strikethrough' or @reported-display-style = 'strikethrough') and @changed = 'deleted'">
	<div class="lbexTextStrikethrough">
	    <xsl:apply-templates/>
	</div>

which calls the following template on line 1390:

.lbexTextStrikethrough
{
    text-decoration:line-through;
}

I do not see appropriations-para in the xsl, but the references to the other versions can be found on line 6368 , which calls the displayHeader template starting on line 6585.

appropriations-[major|intermediate|small are referenced another 40 or so times, generally as an ancestor for the current node styling.

I hope this is helpful.