News release: “The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Cornell University Law School are beginning a year long pilot project to evaluate a conversion process of The Code of Federal Regulations(CFR) in XML (extensible markup language) format. The CFR is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government. The Cornell Legal Information Institute will convert various titles into XML and place them on the university’s Web site for students to research. GPO and Cornell will apply lessons learned from this pilot project and share the information with members of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to find ways of providing the public openness to government documents…GPO recently announced the conversion of the CFR into XML and placed online at GPO’s Federal Digital System and the Government’s site for Government data. Initially the CFR’s from 2007 to present are available and those dating back to 2000 will be added over the next few months. This project and the Cornell pilot are part of the on going effort to meet President Barack Obama’s challenge to Federal agencies to create a more open and transparent Government. GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys), a world-class information management system for Federal publications, is instrumental in enabling this enhanced capability for the CFR.”