gphemsley / congressxml

XML-to-HTML converter for HouseXML and CatoXML.

CongressXML

XML-to-HTML converter for HouseXML and CatoXML.

Installation

Usage

import congressxml

html_tree = congressxml.convert_xml("bill.xml")

congressxml.write_html(html_tree, "bill.html")

congressxml's Issues

Make anchor point IDs human-readable

The fix for #7 used existing IDs that are just a long string of alphanumeric characters that seem to be some sort of hash. These IDs are by no means human-readable, nor are they related to the sections they identify in any transparent way.

Eventually, sections should have IDs that are similar to the forms that are used by citations, so as to keep things obviously uniform and uniformly obvious.

Error in s1466-105

File "/home/govtrack/web/bill/billtext.py", line 294, in load_bill_text
"text_html": lxml.html.tostring(congressxml.convert_xml(dat["xml_file"])),

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/init.py", line 352, in convert_xml
return etree.ElementTree(build_html_tree(xml_tree.getroot(), url_fn))

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/init.py", line 338, in build_html_tree
html_tree = convert_element(node, url_fn)

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/init.py", line 200, in convert_element
xml_tag = xml_element.tag

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'tag'

Include internal ids for anchor points

Value of enum?

Special segment error in s1243-113

I don't have which bill version from the stack trace unfortunately, but it'll be the most recent version.

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/init.py", line 126, in create_link_url
citation = citations.deepbills_citation_for(entity_type, entity_value, xml_element.text, entity_proposed)

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/citations/init.py", line 101, in deepbills_citation_for
citation = build_citation(entity_value_segments, entity_value_segment_names[entity_subtype])

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/citations/init.py", line 60, in build_citation
add_special_segment(citation, entity_value_segment)

File "/home/govtrack/web/lib/congressxml/citations/init.py", line 10, in add_special_segment
raise ValueError("Special segment already defined in citation")

ValueError: Special segment already defined in citation

Turn off Act linking

The URL used doesn't actually ever work.

Improve table formatting

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr4983/text
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1960/text

Improve formatting of proposed constitutional amendments

Constitutional amendments have special formatting:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/sjres25/text

Make quotation mark usage explicit

govtrack@5082f83