Having handled XML CMS ingestion in the past,
“When updating the site to reflect our constitutional scholars’ analysis of the impact of the latest cases on Article I, Sections 8-10, the team inadvertently removed an XML tag,” LoC communications director Bill Ryan told us in an email. “This prevented publication of everything in Article I after the middle of Section 8. The problem has been corrected, and our updated constitutional analysis is now available. We are taking steps to prevent a recurrence in the future.”
this sounds far more plausible than a nefarious scheme.
Just because there are a lot of those out there doesn’t mean everything is. (and if you’ve ever had to find the errors in and manually edit XML files …)
Does it make sense that the same omission happened on different pages (text-only versus annotated)? That is: does the explanation suggest that the whole text is stored with xml tags throughout such that it can be displayed in 3 different ways, and that a bad or lost tag would remove not only the text from the below listed ‘main’ pages but also completely delete the referenced pages, such as https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C2-1/ALDE_00001087/ ? We could not get to any of those sorts of pages while the ‘main’ pages had missing text.
- https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
- https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/
- https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/
Also, there seemed to be an issue viewing new attempts to archive 14th amendment stuff like: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-1-1/ALDE_00000811/ , which looks fine on the live site, but may give errors if you try to view a new archive (old archives work, but new ones complain about the server or cookies).
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