Technical details of Lawtext

This section explains the technical details of Lawtext.

• Intermediate data - Lawtext is a plain-text format for law (mainly targeting Japanese law). The Lawtext parser converts a Lawtext string into JSON data representing the law structure based on the Standard Law XML Schema.
• Parsing - The goal of the Lawtext parser is to extract the law content that the original Lawtext (plain-text) expresses and obtain it as a intermediate data structure.
• Syntax - About the syntax of Lawtext.
• Analyzing - Lawtext provides some functionalities for analyzing corresponding parentheses, term definition positions, clause number references, etc.
• Rendering - Lawtext provides the functionality of rendering into several formats, such as Lawtext, Standard Law XML, HTML, and docx.