Footnotes

Those familiar with my old schemas and DTDs will now probably raise an eyebrow, but I have finally succumbed to the lure of footnotes in the inline content model of my all-purpose personal DTD.

What finally convinced me was my need to create multiple references to a single note that, while interrupting the text flow and thus unwelcome in the text itself, was too short to place in a section of its own. There was no logical way to semantically identify that note in a form or in a place that would allow me to reference it from several different points in my text. Footnotes (and footnote references) solve that problem very neatly, and the allow me to present my footnotes as end notes using a different stylesheet.