RE: [xsl] Re: Overlapping structures

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 01:20 PM 10/10/01, you wrote:
>Isn't this the kind of thing XPointer is meant for, e.g. there's an
>epic simile from there to there.
>
>One could add empty elements to the document to make easier targets
>for the pointers.  Those elements could even point back to the
>descriptive elements that point to them.

Yes, this is the way it's commonly done. Thank goodness ranges were 
included in XPointer.

(But I don't know of any direct support for XPointer in XSLT processors....)

Also, there's plenty of interesting work going on (along lines suggested by 
a couple of the posts in this thread) for converting one hierarchy into 
another. This approach takes the position that rather than seeking to be 
"the" text, an XML instance can work as an ad-hoc representation of a text 
-- and thus that several XML documents together can provide a fuller 
description. Patrick's excellent XSLT-based approach to an SGML-like 
"CONCUR" feature falls into this category.

Cheers,
Wendell



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