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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<measure>
	<page number="1"/>
	<citation type="D.C. Law" number="19-206"/>
	<codified status="true"/>
	<text>
		<long_title>"To amend the Pedestrian Protection Amendment Act of 1987 to require vehicles to stop before passing through a crosswalk when a vehicle in an adjacent lane is stopped and to clarify that persons on  bicycles and operating personal mobility devices have the same rights and duties as pedestrians  under the same circumstances"</long_title>
		<short_title>Pedestrian and Bicyclist Protection Amendment Act of 2012</short_title>
		<sections>
			<section number="2" type="amendatory"><margin_note text="Amend" code="50-2201.08"/><section_header/><section_text>

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<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xs:element name="measure">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="page">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:string">
<xs:attribute type="xs:byte" name="number"/>
</xs:extension>

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long_title{ 
  font-style: italic;
	display:block;
}
short_title:before {
	content: "BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the \"";
}
short_title:after{
	content:"\".";
}

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Sub LIMS_Test()
'
' LIMS_Test Macro
'
'

Dim LIMS_URL As String
Dim Short_Title As String
Dim IE As InternetExplorer
Set IE = New InternetExplorer

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Sub LIMS_Test()
'
' LIMS_Test Macro
'
'

Dim LIMS_URL As String
Dim LIMS_Entry As String
Dim Short_Title As String
Dim IE As InternetExplorer

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---
measure-Type: Bill
long-Title: To amend the way we draft
short-title: LegisML Act of 2013
---
$(short title):This act may be cited as the "?(short-title)". //drawing from metadata?
$: This is a section.
$: $$: This is a subsection of a section.
$$: This is also a subsection.
$(conforming amendments): ?(old_law($2)) "unstructured" < "structured"

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#!/usr/bin/env python

##This is the definition for the function to return the dollar value. But it doesn't work because the D&F formats are inconsistent

def dandftext(url):
  url = re.split('\\\\',url)[2]
  call('wget http://app.ocp.dc.gov/intent_award/D_F/' + url, shell=True)
  call('pdftotext ' + url, shell=True)
  url_text = re.split('(.pdf)', url)[0] + '.txt'
  df = open(url_text,'r')

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import mechanize
import cookielib
import json
import urllib

#initialize outfile
out = open('glob.html', 'w')

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Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

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{
    "congress": [
        "2013-1-1",
        "2013-1-2",
        "2013-1-3",
        "2013-1-4",
        "2013-1-21",
        "2013-1-22",
        "2013-1-23",
        "2013-1-29",