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Subsets anyone?


I've noticed DocBook seems to have a shortage of tags, so I figured I'd 
propose my own.  I began to build a 'master' document for the documents I 
have.  My documents are currently books.  Thus far, my books physically 
reside in separate directories with the files for each book colocated with 
the others of that book.

/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2-ch2.xml
...

I realized I wanted to form a global document to hold all these books.  So I 
started to make a set.  I then realized that I actually wanted a set for each 
subject, and then a set of all sets.  But then I wondered if the set of all 
sets could contain itsself.  After I recovered from the mental stack 
overflow, I decided subsets might be nice to have.

Do others follow my thinking here?  Is this a good idea?

STH


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