NARA’s Office of the Federal Register and GPO are planning a change to how certain dash characters are presented in the XML for Federal Register and the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations.
Change Summary
instances of en dashes (–) will be replaced by hyphens (-).
This will affect the following:
Federal Register XML
Electronic Code of Regulations XML
In the following locations:
GovInfo (bulkdata repository, API, and general content access)
federalregister.gov
ecfr.gov
Samples of current and updated XML are available here
This change will go live on govinfo.gov, federalregister.gov, and ecfr.gov for new and updated content starting approximately on 3/26/2024.
This will initially affect new content within GovInfo, but will also be propagated to older content over time.
NARA’s Office of the Federal Register and GPO are planning a change to how certain dash characters are presented in the XML for Federal Register and the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations.
Change Summary
instances of en dashes (–) will be replaced by hyphens (-).
This will affect the following:
In the following locations:
Samples of current and updated XML are available here
This change will go live on govinfo.gov, federalregister.gov, and ecfr.gov for new and updated content starting approximately on 3/26/2024.
This will initially affect new content within GovInfo, but will also be propagated to older content over time.