Features

AT4AM for All is composed of different modules:

• Core toolkit

  The Core toolkit provides support for the main features that one could expect from a parliamentary amendment authoring system.
  (nsesa-editor: source code, javadoc, dependencies)

• Akoma Ntoso editor

  The Akoma Ntoso editor is a sample implementation of a web-based amendment authoring tool. It is used to demonstrate the features, the capabilities and the flexibility of the Core toolkit.
  (nsesa-editor-an: source code, javadoc, dependencies)

• Diff service

  The Diff service compares two blocks of text and marks up the differences.
  (nsesa-diff: source code, javadoc, dependencies)

• Demo backend server API

  Services API of the demo backend server.
  (nsesa-server-api: source code, javadoc, dependencies)

• Demo backend server implementation

  Implementation of the demo backend server.
  (nsesa-server-impl: source code, javadoc, dependencies)

Core editor

In version 1.0, the Core editor will provide support for the following features:

• Native support for XML documents and amendments

• Parse Akoma Ntoso documents

  The Core editor is able to parse any valid Akoma Ntoso document from a local or a remote location. The document is processed to be displayed in the web-based Akoma Ntoso editor.

• Produce Akoma Ntoso amendments

  Amendments created with the support of the Core toolkit are natively produced in Akoma Ntoso XML format.

• Amendments on text content (update, delete, new)

• Amendments on complex text structure (e.g. update / creation of an entire article)

• Amendments metadata (e.g. author, justification)

• Multi-language UI support

• Multi-language content support

The following features could be supported in future versions:

• Change amendment location

  An amendment for the creation of a new text element can be moved to another location within the source text with the same parent (vertical move) or another parent element (horizontal move).

Akoma Ntoso editor

In version 1.0, the functions of the Akoma Ntoso editor will be:

• Native support for Akoma Ntoso 2+

• The toolkit currently supports Akoma Ntoso versions 2.0 and 3.0.

• Load source text from a remote location

• Source text rendering

• Text diffing (use of the diff service)

• Amendment rendered in European Parliament style (original and amendment text contents displayed in 2 columns with changes marked as bold italic)

• Export amendments in Akoma Ntoso

• Support for most common web browsers

• The following features could be supported in future versions:

• Check input XML document (valid XML document in a supported format)

• Multi-language spell checking

• Export amendments in different formats, such as HTML, PDF, OpenOffice

• Amendments on other content types, such as tables, images, mathematical formulas

• Amendment rendered in different styles (e.g. with changes marked as blue underlined / red strikethrough)

• Amendment rendered as consolidated within the source text

• Complex actions on amendments, such as split & merge

• Support for mobile devices

Demo backend server

In version 1.0, the functions of the Demo backend server will be:

• Store amendments in an in-memory database (using H2 Database engine)

The following features could be supported in future versions:

• Persist amendments using a different database system

• Amendment versioning

• Amendment state change

• Amendment workflow

• Notification of events

• Authentication & authorisation

• Different user profiles

Diff service

The Diff service compares two blocks of text and marks up the differences.

It supports plain text, HTML and XML content.