12. The computer-implemented method according to claim 8 , wherein at least some of the supporting data sets include one or more properties associated with its corresponding independent data set in the electronic document, wherein the properties are not stored in the data structure of the electronic document.
13. The computer-implemented method according to claim 12 , wherein the one or more properties includes at least one member selected from the group of: handwriting recognizer generated alternative words, characters, or character strings; speech recognizer generated alternative words, characters, or character strings; language of a word, character, or character string; identifier of a word, character, or character string source; original electronic ink data associated with a word, character, or character string; time of input of a word, character, or character string; and spacing data associated with a word, character, or character string.