Improving the Hansard Production of the Chamber of Deputies Through the Introduction of XML

The introduction of XML Markup from the first stages of production of Parliamentary Acts allows to make them easily manageable for further processing, thanks to the definition of some sort of logical structuring for their contents. To make it possible, we need document editors that enable users to effectively markup their texts, without making substantial changes in their usual interaction patterns. We present a Web-based editor of daily Italian Parliamentary Reports: it allows reporters to write parts of Parliamentary Sessions' speeches and easily structure them in accordance to a predefined XML Schema.