5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein each of said markup language elements of said set is an instance of the same markup language element.
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and a memory coupled to said at least one processor storing: a markup language document containing: a markup language element hierarchy having a parent markup language element and a contained set of markup language elements; and a plurality of references to said markup language element hierarchy, each of said plurality of references being a further markup language element having an attribute identifying said parent markup language element of said markup language element hierarchy; and machine-executable code which, when executed by the at least one processor, generates, from said markup language document, another markup language document containing one instance of said set of markup language elements for each of said plurality of references, wherein said parent markup language element has an attribute with a unique value, wherein said attribute of each said further markup language element identifies said parent markup language element by said unique attribute value, and wherein said generated markup language document lacks said parent markup language element.