Legal and citable content

Legal texts are cited to the paragraph. In bitmark every article, paragraph and footnote is a bit with a permanent address, so a citation can point to exactly the text it means, in exactly the edition it means.

Pinpoint citation

[.article]
[@customerId: art_8_para_2 ]
[%Art. 8 para. 2]
The controller must inform the person concerned, as required by (+xref:https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2022/491/en#art_6|provider:fedlex)Art. 6 FADP(-xref).

• @customerId keeps the publisher's own ID for the paragraph, so a citation made against the publisher's system still finds it.
• [%…] is the label readers cite: "Art. 8 para. 2".
• A reference to another document keeps its official address and names the provider that resolves it.

A bit can also record where it sits in the original source (@sourceRL) and the box it covers on the page (@sourceBB), so an answer can show the original page next to the text.

Editions

A new edition keeps the IDs of unchanged provisions; a reader matches old and new bit by bit, and bitmark diff shows what changed between the two. Amendments and consolidated versions are diff layers on the base text; see Alias and diff books.