On 11/10/11 06:47, Patricia Bart wrote:

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> Is the only proper encoding the following (using<rs>)?:
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> I never fly WITH<rs key="D001">HER</rs> to
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> <name key="FR" type="place">France</name>
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Not the only one, but certainly valid. Here you are using @key as a
"magic token" rather than a pointer. Whatever system you intend using to
process the file has to know how to interpret the "D001" -- in the case
of "FR" that's not so hard, but maybe a more resilient method for both
would be to use @ref which can act like an HTML pointer to select the
place in your document or elsewhere where you specify exactrly which
dog (or country) you are on about!

<rs ref="http://myListOfdogs.xml#D001">HER</rs>

assuming that somewhere in "myListOfdogs.xml" there is something like

<person xml:id="D001">
<persName>Flopsy</persName>
<desc>An anthropormophised pootch</desc>
</person>

OR

<rs ref="#D001">HER</rs> (if Flopsy is defined in the same document as
she is referenced)