Comments on: Support Senate Roll Call Votes in XML http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/05/01/support-senate-roll-call-votes-in-xml/ Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Blumenthal http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/05/01/support-senate-roll-call-votes-in-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-83453 Paul Blumenthal Tue, 05 May 2009 18:16:38 +0000 http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/?p=8414#comment-83453 My colleague John Wonderlich will be blogging about this soon. It looks like this is a win! My colleague John Wonderlich will be blogging about this soon. It looks like this is a win!

]]> By: TCB http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/05/01/support-senate-roll-call-votes-in-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-83439 TCB Tue, 05 May 2009 17:39:07 +0000 http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/?p=8414#comment-83439 An XML link appears on this page: http://foxyurl.com/1w6 ..for this XML document of the roll call: http://foxyurl.com/1w7 Older votes don't appear to have the XML link -- is this the first one, or is XML provided only for the most recent vote? The New York Times Congress API has been doing a good job scraping the HTML data to date: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/congress_api An XML link appears on this page:

http://foxyurl.com/1w6

..for this XML document of the roll call:

http://foxyurl.com/1w7

Older votes don’t appear to have the XML link — is this the first one, or is XML provided only for the most recent vote?

The New York Times Congress API has been doing a good job scraping the HTML data to date:

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/congress_api

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