>Perhaps this is not so unusual, but I'm unsure of how to tag a
>container
>list describing correspondence at the item level in the
>following manner:
>
>Box 1, Folder 1
>[date] [writer] [recipient]
> [information]
>2/16/1947 John Smith William Jones
> Memorandum
>concerning business
>
>This is the existing order of information in an old, large finding aid
>(approx. 600 typewritten pages!). Can it be done without
>rearranging the
>data? I don't really want to use the tabular tags.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions; I'm stumped.

How about tagging up as is,
then using XSLT to transform to the desired parentage?

HTH DaveP