The Twelve Tables in Akoma Ntoso

Rome’s earliest law code, as reconstructed in English by P.R. Coleman-Norton, marked up in Akoma Ntoso, the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents. No original text survives, so the markup separates the editor’s completions, definitions and notes from the rest of the text and marks the gaps.

How it was made

The XML was generated by Claude for Grant Vergottini from the Project Gutenberg text of Coleman-Norton’s edition. The bronze styling is a modern evocation, not a copy of any surviving object.

Files

• twelve-tables.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• twelve-tables.css: the stylesheet that renders it