On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Syd Bauman wrote:

> So even in cases
> where it is *very* unlikely that a <pb> would be inside the element
> extracted, you'd like to have software that told you what page it
> came from. So the preceding::pb sort of method is a must-have :-)

Ha. How did I guess that my query would create a TEI-L thread leading to
ontological debate and ending up in science fiction? I appreciate all
the thoughts on justification for various usage choices; we've started
out with a "put the <pb> where it falls" practice and will stick with
that as house style.

Meanwhile, I'll offer a bit of sample XML markup and XSLT code to
address the processing/retrieval issue. It's not really too hard to
locate milestone elements relative to container elements even when they
can fall inside or between those elements. Examples are here:

http://lister.ei.virginia.edu/~drs2n/pb-handling-example.html

This is only one approach.

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