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User Guides for XML on the govinfo Bulk Data Repository. For information about Bill Status XML Bulk Data, see https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status.
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Bill number/type codes #113

Closed zpneal closed 1 year ago

zpneal commented 1 year ago

In the 116th session and earlier bill status files, a bill's number and type are noted with the XML tags and respectively. But, starting in the 117th session these were shortened to and . I couldn't find any documentation of this change, but discovered it due to an error in introduced in a parsing script.

jonquandt commented 1 year ago

Could you enclose the tag information you have below

were shortened to and .

into code blocks so we can better understand the issue?

This may be a result of https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/issues/200, where we adopted a new version of our upstream source for BILLSTATUS and BILLSUM information, the congress.gov API.

zpneal commented 1 year ago

Sorry about that. In the 116th and earlier, the tags <billNumber> and <billType> are used (example). Starting in the 117th they changed to <number> and <type> (example). I see now that the change was noted in the issue you linked. Thanks!