appropriations-major

Element information

Content

• Sequence [1..1]
  1. header [0..1]The header is the structure, often proceeded by an enum element that represents the "bold" text or heading of a subdivision or level. For example: the words “Short Title” in the phrase “Section 1. Short Title.” The text of headers is typed in sentence style casing (upper and lower case) so that the table of contents entries can be extracted from the body of the document. Display mechanisms (both print and on-line) will need to transform the casing of headers based on their legislative structure. Section headers display uppercased. Subsection headers display in a caps and small caps casing style where the first letter of the header is always uppercased; characters originally typed using uppercasing are caps and all other words are initial capped, except for the following words: a, an, and, as, at, but, by, for, in, of, on, or, the, and to. Levels below the subsection level are cased using caps and small caps, but maintain sentence style casing. For all other structural levels (e.g., division, title, subtitle, part, subpart, etc.), the casing is transformed to uppercase. In addition, any necessary punctuation and spaces following the header will be generated for display or printing. For example, when certain structures, e.g., Titles, Subtitles, Chapters, etc., follow OLC style, the display or print system will generate a centered header with no subsequent punctuation. For sections using OLC style, a generated period will follow the header, and for structures below the section level, a generated period followed by an em-dash will follow the header.
  2. subheader [0..*]An additional “header” that follows a <header> and provides additional information concerning the structure identified by the header element. Often used in appropriations legislation. The text of headers will appear in sentence style casing (upper and lower case) so that the table of contents entries can be extracted from the body of the document. Display mechanisms (both print and on-line) will need to transform the casing of headers based on their location within various strucutres. Section headers display uppercased. Subsection headers display in a caps and small caps casing style where the first letter of the header is always uppercased; characters originally typed using uppercasing are caps and all other words are inital capped, except for the words: a, an, and, as, at, but, by, for, in, of , on, or, the, and to. Levels below the subsection level are cased using caps and small caps, but maintaining sentence style casing. For all other structural levels (e.g., division, title, subtitle, part, subpart, etc.), the casing is transformed to uppercase. In addition, any necessary punctuation and spaces following the header will be generated for display or printing. For example, when certain structures, e.g., Titles, Subtitles, Chapters, etc., follow OLC style, the display or print system will generate a centered header with no punctuation following. For sections using OLC style, a generated period will follow the Header, and for structures below the Section level, a generated period followed by an em dash will follow the header. Note: In these DTDs, <title> and <subtitle> do not refer to a subcaption or heading. The element <title> and <subtitle> are very specific subdivisions of a legislative measure. The element subheader should only be used to describe a secondary heading or subcaption.
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     • text [0..*]Textual material that follows a header, an enumerator, an enumerator/header pair, or as a cut-in (flush-left) final text after a non-structural element such as a quoted-block, table, graphic, etc.. In appropriations bills, the function performed by the text element is usually performed by the appropriations paragraph element.
     from subst. group nonstructured-level-model
     tableThe table model for Congressional legislative documents uses the OASIS (formerly known as CALS) Table Exchange Model with some additions and modifications to accommodate House and Senate requirements as defined by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
     graphicA pointer to a file containing a graphic and information about the graphic. The <graphic> element uses attributes that point to an external graphic file such as a photograph of a person or a drawing of a warning symbol. The attributes and their values have been modeled on GPO attributes. The actual graphic is usually stored in an external file and merely named by the attributes of this element. The element itself would be empty, but it is used to contain a brief description of the graphic (See element <graphic-description>). This description can be used for searching, to display in place of the graphic in an online system, or to be read by a voice synthesis device for the visually-impaired who cannot see the graphic.
     formulaContainer for a graphic element representing a scientific or mathematical equation.
     pagebreakUsed to force a new page in the output. Should be used very rarely.
     legis-commentThe legis-comment element defines a comment to the legislative language.
     quoted-blockTextual matter used to amend current law. Quoted block is so named because it is printed or displayed with quotation marks in front of each structural and non-structural level. (These quotation marks are generated for print or display; they are not part of the data.) The name “quoted block” is not meant to imply that the words within this element exist somewhere else and are being quoted. Rather, they signify text to be used to amend current law. In print or display, quoted material usually takes on the style (margins, enumeration style, typographic style, etc.) of the document which is being amended. Thus, a bill in OLC style that is intended to modify United States Code, would put text that was to be inserted into the United States Code inside the quoted block (structure of legislation) and the words would print in USC style, with a quotation mark preceding each level. Other rules that apply to the specific style associated with the quoted-block also need to be applied. For example, when using USC style, section enumerators are preceded by a section symbol and a thin space rather than the word “Sec.”. Note: Words displayed in quotation marks for emphasis or to indicate a speech are not considered to be quoted-block.
     non-statutory-materialUsed to contain non-statutory material. Non-statutory material examples are poems, song stanzas, newspaper articles, and book passages.
     listA container element for a sequence of list-items organized as a list. The list can be non-numbered, numbered, or lettered.
     tocThe table of contents for a measure or portion of a measure. The attributes of the toc element are used for regeneration of the toc within the authoring environment. There are essentially two toc sub-models (toc-entries or multi-column-toc-entries). Both models are non-hierarchial in that the legislative structure is defined in an attribute rather in the structure of the toc itself. The toc-entries sub-model, the most common, is sequence of enumerators and headers from the measure's source using PCDATA. There is no distrinction between the enumerator and header elements within the toc-entry elements. The multi-column-toc-entries sub-model contain up to three columns of data per entry (toc-enum, level-header, and target or page-num). Both sub-models also support quoted-entry elements (ie.g., toc-quoted-entry and multi-column-toc-quoted-entry respectively).
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     1. Choice [1..1]
        • subsection [0..*]A hierarchical structure of a measure. This level is contained directly within sections. Levels contained within subsections are paragraphs, subparagraphs, clauses, subclauses, items, and subitems. Subsections are normally enumerated with a lowercased alpha character within parentheses (e.g., (a)). After reaching (z), subsections are enumerated with double letters (e.g., (aa), (bb), (cc), etc.).
        • paragraph [0..*]A hierarchical structure of a measure. This level is contained directly with subsections. Levels contained within paragraphs are subparagraphs, clauses, subclauses, items, and subitems. Subparagraphs are normally enumerated with a numeric values within parentheses (e.g., (1)).
     2. continuation-text [0..*]Textual material belonging to a level, the text follows the sub-level

Attributes

Used in

• Anonymous type of element rule
• Anonymous type of element rules-clause
• Anonymous type of element rules-paragraph
• Anonymous type of element rules-subparagraph
• Anonymous type of element rules-subdivision
• Anonymous type of element rules-item
• Anonymous type of element rules-subitem
• Anonymous type of element section  via extension of section-model
• Anonymous type of element quoted-block  via extension of quoted-block-model
• Anonymous type of element division  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element subdivision  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element title  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element subtitle  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element chapter  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element subchapter  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element part  via reference to start-of-structure
• Anonymous type of element subpart  via reference to start-of-structure
• Group start-of-structure
• Type section-model
• Type quoted-block-model
• Type division-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type subdivision-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type title-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type subtitle-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type chapter-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type subchapter-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type part-model  via reference to start-of-structure
• Type subpart-model  via reference to start-of-structure

Substitution hierarchy

• legis-structures
  • subsection
  • paragraph
  • subparagraph
  • clause
  • subclause
  • item
  • subitem
  • division
  • subdivision
  • title
  • subtitle
  • chapter
  • subchapter
  • part
  • subpart
  • section
  • appropriations-major
  • appropriations-intermediate
  • appropriations-small