Macnab commentary notes

Legal materials contained within the Macnab volume are marked up with references to relevant sections of other legal textbooks. The print version of the book shows these references as notes with the italic title Commentary .

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These commentary notes may either appear at the start of the document together or within the text of the material itself.

Capture commentary notes as a noteGroup element with attribute role="commentaryMacnab" at the div1 element level.

Commentary notes start with a reference to (a part of) the regulation. Capture this reference as the paragraph enumerator.

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Capture the references to pertinent sections within legal textbooks following the enumerator as extRef elements with attributes to denote which book and which paragraph is referred to.

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Capture a document reference in a docRef attribute containing a reference to either Faull & Nikpay Or Roth & Rose.

//extRef/@docRef

Format of the docRef attribute

Faull & Nikpay:: docRef="F&N"
Roth & Rose:: docRef="B&C"

Capture a second attribute defining paragraph number containing the target paragraph number.

//extRef/@kevRef

Format of the keyRef attribute

kevRef="paragraph=2.031"

Example commentary notes at the start of the document

Printed book

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XML


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        <div1><noteGroup role="unreferencedNote">
 <titleGroup>
   <title>
     <p>Notes</p>
   </title>
 </titleGroup>
 <note type="blockNote">
   <p>The date of this Regulation is shown as corrected by the <bibItem id="law-euclo-lg032-bibItem-2" class="EUleg" subClass="EUreg" idnumber="OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p.158|32003R1943R(01)" title="Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1943/2003 of 3 November 2003 laying down rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards aid to producer groups granted preliminary recognition" legisNum="1943" date="2004">Corrigendum at OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p.
                158.</bibItem>
                         </p>
   <p>EEA application: this instrument was adopted with appropriate adaptations by
       <bibItem id="law-euclo-lg032-bibItem-3" class="EUleg" subClass="EUdec" idnumber="OJ L 198, 28.7.2005, p. 42|22005D0042" title="Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 42/2005 of 11 March 2005 amending Annex XIV (Competition) to the EEA Agreement" legisNum="42" date="2005">EEA Joint Committee Decision No 42/2005 of 11 March
                  2005, OJ L 198, 28.7.2005, p. 42</bibItem> and EEA Supplement No 38, 28.7.2005, p.
                24: see EEA Agreement, Annex XIV, Chapter C, Point 5.</p>
 </note></noteGroup><noteGroup role="commentaryMacnab">
 <note type="blockNote">
   <p>
                             <enumerator>Regulation 772/2004/EC:</enumerator>
     <xrefGrp>
                                 <extRef docRef="B&amp;C" kevRef="paragraph=2.017" sysId="law-9784567891011.xml">B&amp;C: 2.017</extRef>
                             </xrefGrp>,
         <xrefGrp>
                                 <extRef docRef="B&amp;C" kevRef="paragraph=2.031" sysId="law-1234567891011.xml">2.031</extRef>
                             </xrefGrp>, ... <xrefGrp>
                                 <extRef docRef="F&amp;N" kevRef="paragraph=3.377" sysId="law-9784567891012.xml">3.377</extRef>
                             </xrefGrp>
                         </p>
 </note></noteGroup>
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