Opening Government Data: Federal Register Goes XML

"Great news today on the open-access (OA) front with the federal government’s announcement that the Federal Register, the daily compilation of proposed and final regulations to be issued by federal agencies, will now be available in XML format....This is great news for a number of reasons, among them: [1] It’s canonical, complete, and up-to-date, coming as it does directly from the FR publisher....[2] It standardizes regulatory OA policy across the entire Executive Branch...."