On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:39:39 +0100, Pierre Duhem <ls.duhem@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm new to this list and rather new to XML/XSL too.
>
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Thanks.

>I'm now designing a production chain, from raw text to all kind of
>formatted outputs, and my idea is to create a XML file somewhere on
>this chain.
>
>I have problems about how to manage footnotes in this text. Could
>somebody point me to a Web page or archive where such matter is
>already handled? Does somebody has an idea on how to format the XML?
>
I'm sure there must be something in the FAQ - follow the link at the
foot of the message.  There are many tools and frameworks which
already do this kind of thing, for example Docbook (www.docbook.org)
is something I use to get HTML and PDF with footnotes, indexes etc.

>Ideally, we would have
>
><text>
>blahblahblah
><note>Text of the note</note>
>blahblahblah
></text>
>
>The problem is that we would like to have a transformation giving
>
>blahblahblah* blahblahblah
>--
>* Text of the note
>
Not a problem, that is the way to do it.

>
>Does this ring a bell?
>
>Thanks in advance.

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