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I have a book in a TEI-influenced flavor of XML. It contains many
footnotes, which may themselves contain additional footnotes. These
footnotes are coded inline in the originating text, directly following
their reference:
/publication/chapter/section/div/ <p>Some text here and here<ref type="footnote" target="someid">*</ref> <note type="footnote" id="someid"> <label id="lsomelabelid">* </label> <p>Some note text<ref type="footnote" target="anotherid">†</ ref> <note type="footnote" id="anotherid"> <label id="anotherlabel">† </label> <p>A sub note for further reference</p> </note> goes here and here and here. </p> </note> . And even more regular text here. </p> Side note: I am already using a multi-stage transform on this XML to convert it to XHTML, so if I need to add another stage, that's just fine. What I would like to do is un-nest the notes, such that my output XML would look more like this: /publication/chapter/section/ div div div note note note note* note* (where asterisks denote formerly nested sub-notes) Each note would then contain all of its text, refs, and any other content, but no child notes. Further complicating this process is the fact that the publication/ chapter/section part of this program cannot be guaranteed -- divs can live at any level below publication and don't require any sort of parent besides that. Can anyone recommend a flexible way to extract these notes and make them all one level? Thanks in advance, Walter
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