Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Perhaps the document should be stored in canonical form.
That kills the DTD, the id attributes, thus crippling XPath, and it looks horrible on output. I don't think that can be accepted. Canonical form is useful for comparing documents, but not for operating on them, I think. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly