Re: Re: Overlapping structures

Dimitre,

I don't know if marking up a concurrent structure by using  ID/IDREF
mechanisms counts as "clean hierarchical structure"....

> It seems to me that in most if not all cases there exists an alternative, pure,
> clean hierarchical structuring (e.g. by using a list of attributes, containing
> descriptive keyword values)
> 
> Why it should be expressed in xml? 
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.


> <a>I said <z.start/>I will watch my ways</a>
> <a><x/>and keep my tongue from sin<z.end/></a>
> 

<a>I said <z attrib="start"/>I will watch my ways</a>
<a><x/>and keep my tongue from sin<z attrib="end"/></a>

the intellectual challenge remains of extracting a "slice", copying it in
such a way to create well-formed output. 

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