The Articles of Confederation in Akoma Ntoso

The first constitution of the United States, marked up in Akoma Ntoso, the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents, and styled to resemble the original parchment.

How it was made

The XML was generated by Claude for Grant Vergottini from the National Archives transcription, which keeps the original spelling and punctuation. The 48 signatures are base64-encoded images embedded in the XML, taken from the National Archives scan of the sixth sheet.

Files

• articles-of-confederation.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• articles-of-confederation.css: the stylesheet that renders it