Re: What is the best approach for doing.....

Hi,

> [M. David Peterson] Will the user be updating the raw XHTML?

No, they will have an WYSIWYG editor that they will be using for 
editing the final document.

> [M. David Peterson] Ok, so in essence what you are looking at is a
> possible increase in the paragraphs and as such an increase in the
> paragraph numbering affecting the index for the entire document?

Sort of.  My main concern is that if they add or delete a paragraph 
that will 'break the cross referencing.

For example there are four paragraphs, 2(i)(a), 2(i)(b), 2(i)(c) and 2
(i)(d).  Paragraph 2(i)(d) contains a reference to 2(i)(b).

Now if they add another paragraph between 2(i)(b) and 2(i)(d) or delete 
one, it will break the cross referencing.

Thinking about it I need to do something like give each para an ID and 
then where there is a cross reference use some sort of custom markup to 
indicate which paragraph number should be displayed.  Then parse 
through the document to make sure that the correct numbers are 
displayed.

> I will mention that if this is what
> you are looking for then yes, XSLT can do this... but you're in for a
> good day if not more of coding to make it work right.

I don't mind that - it is now the number 1 priority of the project to 
get this working!
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Cheers,

Julian Voelcker
United Kingdom