> While I haven't myself tested XMetaL for this, I fear and suspect this is 
> the case.

As I said in my initial reply things are much more interesting if this
assumption is false.

> Overlap problems are notoriously hard for XML technologies in general,

hard, interesting, somesuch adjective anyway:-)

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