Thanks for the mechanism. I don't care the syntax. You guys can hash these things out. Just so I'm clear... You want to force the id on w to be something like: TR: <w id="TRW..12345">en</w> and then the reference to be something like: KJV: <w sync="Bible.TR..John.1.1.TRW..12345">In</w> This does seem to be a little verbose for each word in the text. Thanks! -Troy.