I Parsed All 241,456 Amendments in New Zealand's Statute Book

🫧 Open on Bubbles The research notes said New Zealand's legislation XML records its amendment history in machine-readable attributes, and I built my first parser against them, and they do not exist. Not "exist but renamed". Not "exist in some files". Zero occurrences, in any file, in either version of the official schema. The actual history lives in little blocks of nearly plain English, with dates written out like "2 July 2001" and the amending act named by title only, no ID, like a Parliame