Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

 > take a fragment like <url doc="http://x.y.z"/>[1] and tell me how to
 > show the damned URL with CSS....
 > 
 > never mind taking  <x idref="XX"/> and replacing it with the contents
 > of <code id="XX">Goodbye Cruel World</code>!

A recent W3C Working Draft [1] discusses these issues. Along with the
attr() function from CSS2 [2], I believe the draft provides you with
functionality to achieve your examples.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page#crossreferences
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#x16

-h&kon

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