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unitedstates / congress

Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes.
https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki
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drop XML output files #191

Open JoshData opened 7 years ago

JoshData commented 7 years ago

When we first created this repo I need to create GovTrack-XML-compatible output for bills and amendments. As far as I know, I'm the only person who has ever used the XML output of the scrapers.

Now that GovTrack's deprecation timeline for XML bulk data is coming to an end with the end of the Congress, I am getting ready to drop GovTrack's dependency on the XML files generated here.

Once I do that, I think we can remove all of the XML output code here.

If anyone else is using the XML output, please say something. Otherwise I'll delete that code (when I get around to it).

konklone commented 7 years ago

:+1:

camping-xml-situps

pqnelson commented 3 years ago

To be clear, what output files exactly will be removed? Because I'm using the XML output to get the bill-text, and I'm using the data.json files, and I just want to be certain they won't be impacted by this...

JoshData commented 3 years ago

This was about the bill status (not text) and roll call vote XML files that would be named data.xml.

But this was four years ago and I still haven't gotten around to it, and I don't have any particular plans to do it at this point.