* The voting record of the United States Senate in XML is quite a
pain to find; e.g.:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1122/vote_112_2_00172.xml
How to locate the repository where all such vote documents reside?
This will be handy if we want to analyze/process a set of documents
by using, for example, the collection() function.
Here is an extract from a stylesheet I wrote to do some crunching on
Senate votes for the 111th and 112th congress. (Don't know why I was
selecting only votes 100 to 200.) Suggested improvements welcome.
<xsl:variable name="base"
select="'http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote'"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="111 to 112">
<xsl:variable name="congress" select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select="1 to 2">
<xsl:variable name="session" select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select="100 to 200">
<xsl:variable name="vote" select="format-number( . cast as
xs:integer, '00000') cast as xs:string"/>
<xsl:variable name="URI"
select="concat($base,$congress,$session,'/vote_',$congress,'_',$session,'_',$vote,'.xml')"/>
<xsl:variable name="roll_call_vote" select="document(
$URI)/roll_call_vote"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$roll_call_vote">
<xsl:with-param name="congress" select="$congress"/>
<xsl:with-param name="session" select="$session"/>
<xsl:with-param name="vote" select="$vote"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
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