On 21.2.2012 10:18, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
don't assume everybody knows what "to milestone" means
Maybe I should at least briefly explain it. In many areas (especially in
documents processing) there is a problem with multiple possible
hierarchies overlapping each other (e.g., in Bibles there are divisions
of text which are going across verse and chapters boundaries and
sometimes terminating in the middle of verse, many especially English
Bibles marks Jesus' sayings with a special element, etc.). One of the
ways how to overcome obvious problem that XML doesn't allow overlapping
elements is to use milestones. So that the book of Bible is not divided like
<book>
<chapter>
<verse>text</verse>
...
</chapter>
...
</book>
but just putting milestones in the text, i.e.:
<book>
<chapter n="1" />
<verse sID="ID1.1" />text of verse 1.1
<verse eID="ID1.1" /> ....
</book>
Is this clear?
Best,
Matěj
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