External supplement links in Blackstone's Criminal Practice

Blackstone’s Criminal Practice is published along with supplements, which include material such as Sentencing Guidelines, Criminal Procedure Rules and updates to the main work. Capture references to these materials from the main work as external references.

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The information here extends the general information.

Treat links in a supplement that refer to materials published in the same document, such as Sentencing guidelines and Rules, as normal cross references.

Capture links in the supplement that refer to the main work, and look the same as the internal cross-references to paragraph numbers in the main book, as external references.

External supplement links appear in a format similar to internal cross references; as a reference to the paragraph number in the supplement, normally in bold (e.g. R-427 or SG-393). Often the surrounding text references the Supplement.

When a new supplement is published, you must update these ref values to the id of the corresponding paragraphs in the new supplement.

Example references in main work to a supplement

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      <p>... (see Supplement, <xrefGrp>
                 <extRef docRef="law-9780199601561" ref="law-9780199601561-div3-13528" sysId="law-9780199601561.xml">
                     <b>SG-393</b>
                 </extRef>
             </xrefGrp> ...</p>
      <p>... (see Supplement, <xrefGrp>
                 <extRef docRef="law-9780199601561" ref="law-9780199601561-div3-62483" sysId="law-9780199601561.xml">
                     <b>R-427</b>
                 </extRef>
             </xrefGrp>...</p>

Example references in the supplement to the main work

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      <p>... see <xrefGrp>
                 <extRef docRef="law-9780199589265" ref="law=9780199589265-div2-89363" sysId="law-9780199589265.xml">
                     <b>E1.6</b>
                 </extRef>
             </xrefGrp> ...</p>