In this part of series, I will describe, how to fetch German law texts from https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de.
Four formats
The (federal) laws in Germany are published by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection on https://www.gesetze-i...
Generate German laws
In this series, I am going to describe, how to build a generator of German laws.
First things first:
I am doing this for my own amusement.
Because of 1., I will not necessarily seek simple ways to do things.
You will most probably facepalm repeatedly ...
Convert German laws from XML to text
For a small project, I needed to convert German laws, found at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/, from XML format to text format.
The XML format is described here and is defined by this DTD file.
The source code in the following XSL file is pretty st...
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Run this script with timesketch_import_plaso.sh plaso_file [timesket...
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It is also one of the Arduino-certified pla...
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Use #!/usr/bin/env before Python interpreter
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Wincent Balin
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