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bowerbird It gets complex when dealing with academic texts.
A reference says page X of such and such edition, the text is the same in all editions, but finding it can be near impossible sometimes.
Hence a single edition of say a major work like Darwin's Origin of the Species, will have radically different page numbers, while the text is unchanged.
Ideally in a single serious digital edition, several important paper editions' page numbers should be included (for works of academic, study, educational interest) along with absolute references (to chapter and paragraph) via element IDs and xmlnamespace.
I have problems with URLs because of their impermanence.
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