Connections of Discontinuous Article Parts
If an article is interrupted, either because it is continued in a later issue, or because articles of another category (e. g. the feature pages) are inserted within the issue, the parts of the article in question are linked together.
Within an issue, the connection is made by the attributes @prev, @next
and @xml:id. For a more detailed description of this linking method, see chapter: Parentheses and Discontinuous Text Passages.
If an article is interrupted and continued in a later issue, the individual subarticles are linked via the <ref> element, which is either empty or encloses the reference to a following continuation given in the source. All parts of an article are provided with <ref> elements. These are at the end of the subarticle, if a continuation is to follow in a later issue, or at the beginning of an article, if a reference is to be made to a previous subarticle. The actual reference is made via the @target attribute, which contains the path to the corresponding article and the unique article ID.
Example: Connection of Three Article Parts in Different Issues
<body><!-- issue 1 --> <!-- [...] --> <div type="jArticle" xml:id="[xml:id-part-1]"><!-- article part 1 --> <p>[start of the article]</p> <p>[further article text]</p> <p> <ref target="[URI-issue-2/xml:id-part-2]">[information on continuation, e. g. "To be continued"]</ref> </p> </div> <!-- [...] --> </body> <body><!-- issue 2 --> <!-- [...] --> <div type="jArticle" xml:id="[xml:id-part-2]"><!-- article part 2 --> <p><ref target="[URI-issue-1/xml:id-part-1]"/></p> <p>[article text]</p> <p>[further article text]</p> <p> <ref target="[URI-issue-3/xml:id-part-3]">[information on continuation, e. g. "To be continued"]</ref> </p> </div> <!-- [...] --> </body> <body><!-- issue 3 --> <!-- [...] --> <div type="jArticle" xml:id="[xml:id-part-3]"><!-- article part 3 --> <p> <ref target="[URI-issue-2/xml:id-part-2]"/> </p> <p>[article text]</p> <p>[end of the article]</p> </div> <!-- [...] --> </body>