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Information about Bill Status XML Bulk Data including the XML User Guide.
https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS
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bill summary updateDate vs lastSummaryUpdateDate #14

Closed JoshData closed 6 years ago

JoshData commented 8 years ago

billSummaries has:

    <updateDate>2013-03-04T05:00:00Z</updateDate>
    <lastSummaryUpdateDate>2013-04-03T20:33:09Z</lastSummaryUpdateDate>

(BILLSTATUS-113s438.xml)

What's the difference in meaning between these nodes? (In this example the dates are different and the bill has just this one summary.)

Relatedly, are the summaries billSummaries in any particular order (oldest to newest, newest to oldest)?

104PL104 commented 8 years ago

No, billSummaries are not listed in a particular order. See Table 5 "Mapping of LOC Summaries Version Codes and Action Description Text" in the User Guide to gain familiarity.

Investigating the date question.

llaplant commented 8 years ago

113th Congress BILLSTATUS was reprocessed recently and has a new updateDate. 

    <updateDate>2016-06-12T03:25:45Z</updateDate>

BILLSTATUS-113s438.xml

lastSummaryUpdateDate applies to billSummaries

llaplant commented 6 years ago

Closing out older issues. Documentation updated https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/master/BILLSTATUS-XML_User_User-Guide.md#summaries.

JoshData commented 6 years ago

Thanks!