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> But yes, there are > situations where you want to impose multiple hierarchic structures over the > same linear data. An obvious one is logical structure vs layout structure > (e.g. sections and pages) another is logical structure vs change history and > authorship. > I'm only aware of two answers: Another solution, for some purposes, is to have two documents, one for each hierarchy. Of course, you don't want to to duplicate the data itself. We avoid this by using "standoff markup", which we implement with XLinks (we have our own software to perform the transclusion process). The context we use this in is markup of linguistic corpora, and we often have an ID on every word. For the Shakespeare example it might be something like this: fragment of base file (othello.xml): <w id="w20">charged</w> <w id="w21">withal</w> <punct id="p5">,</punct> <w id="w22">I</w> <w id="w23">won</w> <w id="w24">his</w> <w id="w25">daughter</w> <punct id="p6">.</punct> <w id="w26">A</w> <w id="w27">maiden</w> <w id="w28">never</w> <w id="w29">bold</w> <punct id="p7">;</punct> <w id="w30">Of</w> <w id="w31">spirit</w> fragment of speech file: <!ENTITY o SYSTEM "othello.xml"> <!ATTLIST speech href CDATA #IMPLIED xml:link CDATA #FIXED "simple" show CDATA #FIXED "embed" actuate CDATA #FIXED "auto"> <speech id="s5" href="&o;#id(w5)..id(p6)/> <speech id="s6" href="&o;#id(w26)..id(p9)/> fragment of line file: <line id="l10" href="&o;#id(w22)..id(p7)/> -- Richard xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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