XML based Legal Document Drafting Environement
Résumé
Legal documents play an important role in all activities related to the legal domain. In particular they represent an efficient human communication mean to transmit legal knowledge. Legislations are often complex and prone to change. Organizations that base their daily work on a set of legal documents have to deal with a massive amount of legal documents (hundreds of thousands) and numerous legal updates (several legal updates every week). Each legal update must be incorporated into the organization’s internal legal documentary corpus and in its Legal Information System. While many existing document management systems are specialized in publication, indexation or administration of document repositories and in information retrieval, they do not respond to specific demand of a legal document drafting environment. In this position paper, we present the operational solution for the legal document drafting information system of our organization with integrated and automated mechanisms to guarantee consistency, conformity and coherence.