Roy Lumb wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on a large electronic finding aid, which has been split up > into 52 separate ead files. I would like to link these files together > as they represent one archival collection. The obvious choice to link > these files would be using <extref> and then using the entityref > attributes. > Hi Roy Why not instead use the HREF attribute of <extref>, with the filename of the target file *relative* to the starting file? Keep the target files in the same directory as the starting document, or a subdirectory thereof, and that ought to be enough to forge meaningful, navigable relationships between them. Generally, XML and HTML s/w I've used copes fine with relative addresses, i.e. "look in the current directory first". If the files ever go on a web server in the same arrangement, the links will still be meaningful, though you might then choose to do a global replace to prepend the full path. This would be (has been) my approach, so if it's completely wrong-headed, I hope someone will put me straight! Richard -- / \ Richard M Davis / Digital Archives \ University of London Computer Centre / Tel: +44 (0) 20 7692 1350 \ mailto: [log in to unmask] /