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From: allan@rind.cs.cornell.edu (James Allan)
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Subject: Re: SGML question
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Date: 12 Sep 90 00:45:56 GMT
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emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>It would be interesting to see an excerpt from this encyclopedia,
>to show the format of what they are using for cross references.

Each article starts with "<fw.art id=XXX>" where XXX is a unique identifier
the article (the article ends with "</fw.art>").  The cross references
then look like 

	<xr type=see syntax=sep><x id=AARE></x>Aare</xr>

which, I believe, means "see also Aare, which is a separate document
with id AARE".

So the format isn't as restrictive as explicit byte offsets.

Thanks for the information about DTD's; now I just have to track one
down!

			-- james allan
			   allan@cs.cornell.edu