United States Congress Data Dictionary of Legislative Documents

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Element Name:	rules–subitem
Description:	Rules are hierarchically structured as clauses, paragraphs, subparagraphs, subdivisions, items, and subitems. The heirarchy follows this order.
Bills DTD Content Model:	(enum, text, (rules–subitem | continuation–text)*)
Attributes:	Name: changed Description: Has this ENTIRE structural element (such as a Section (structure of legislation), Title (structure of legislation), etc.) been added or deleted? Value(s): added, deleted, not-changed Default Value: not-changed Name: id Description: Unique name for the element so that it can be referenced. Value(s): ID Default Value: #REQUIRED Name: indent Description: Mechanism permitting an override of the indentation typically used or a way to specify indentation level for a structure. The values are relative (up1 through up7 and down1 through down7) and absolute (the structure level can be specified such as subsection). Value(s): left-margin, flush-left, rule, rules-clause, rules-paragraph, rules-subpargraph, rules-subdivision, rules-item, rules-subitem, up1, up2, up3, up4, up5, up6, down1, down2, down3, down4, down5, down6 Default Value: #IMPLIED Name: reporting-committee Description: For new or deleted textual material, this attribute provides a link to the name of the committee that made a particular insertion or deletion. The committee name is defined in the committee amendment line, which is part of one of the actions associated with the measure. This element links a specific change to that committee name. Value(s): CDATA Default Value: #IMPLIED
Parent Elements:	quoted-block rules-item rules-subitem