Michael suggest to Martin ...
>
> Did you consider something like
>
> <div>
> <divGen n="Il.4-Il.5" type="fetchLines/>
> </div>
>

Which leads me to suggest thinking about different attributes instead of
different elements.

If Martin Mueler has the same selection from Homer referenced several
times in several elements, one <ptr> element with the relevant information
about the quotation could be referenced from several places in the
document.

<ptr id="ptr01" target="Il.4-Il.5">

which can be referenced from a <div>

<div ana="ptr01">

or a <p ana="ptr01">

or a <quote ana="ptr01">


you get the picture.

Is this is considered attribute abuse, one could explore :

quote --->

14.9 Connecting Analytic and Textual Markup

In chapters 15 Simple Analytic Mechanisms and 16 Feature Structures and
elsewhere, provision is made for analytic and interpretive markup to be
represented outside of textual markup, either in the same document or in
a different document. The elements in these separate domains can be
connected, either with the pointing attributes ana (for 'analysis') and
inst (for' instance'), or by means of <link> and <linkGrp> elements.
Numerous examples are given in these chapters, particularly in sections
15.4 Linguistic Annotation, 16.3 Feature, Feature-Structure and
Feature-Value Libraries and 16.10 Two Illustrations.

<--- quote


<link> can occur within <div>

        and the value of its "targets" attribute can be the ID values of
        the <div> and the <ptr>

<link> can occur elsewhere than in the targetted <div> and still

        and the value of its "targets" attribute can be the ID values of
        the <div> and the <ptr>


http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/ref-LINK.html


Good luck.



--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance

Wondering if...

        mnemonic is to analytic
                 as
        mimetic  is to synthetic