The Declaration of Independence in Akoma Ntoso

The Declaration of Independence, marked up in Akoma Ntoso, the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents, and styled to resemble the 1823 Stone engraving.

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 56 signatures are base64-encoded images embedded in the XML, taken from a high-resolution scan of the engraving.

Files

• declaration-of-independence.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• declaration-of-independence.css: the stylesheet that renders it