This document defines the MetaLex XML standard for sources of law, as established by the CEN Workshop on an Open XML Interchange Format for Legal and Legislative Resources (MetaLex). MetaLex prescribes syntactic restrictions on XML documents and schemas, as defined by an XML Schema specification (section 3), defines a semantics for XML document metadata (section 4), defines a semantics for reference, citation, and document component inclusion (section 5), and defines MetaLex conformance of naming conventions (section 6). The official name of this standard agreement is CEN MetaLex. Wherever this document uses the term MetaLex it refers to CEN MetaLex. Conformance to this standard is defined inline, global conformance constraints are iterated in section 7. The italicized keywords MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, and MAY are used to specify normative features of MetaLex documents, of implementations of the MetaLex standard, and of tools offering specific functionality for MetaLex, and are interpreted as specified in RFC 2119.
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