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Please allow the nesting of <ref> blocks. Possibly, restrict it to a depth of one
(althoug I think, programmatically, any depth is likely the same amount of work),
and possibly restrict it to grouped references (although I do not see a neceessity
from a programming standpoint of view) but these restrictions may make life easier
for readers.



The most important benefit that I see, and sincerly want to have, is the ability to have
multiple references to a single source object with individual annotations to each reference,
such as page numbers, e.g. while the source object is only defined once.



I give an example of what I would like to have.



Consider this wiki code:


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The arguments are:

* aa-0 <ref group="ref"> See page iii in <ref group="Lit" name="aa"> book aa </ref></ref>

* aa-1 <ref group="ref"> See page 123 in <ref group="Lit" name="aa" /></ref>

* bb-0 <ref group="Lit" name="bb"> book bb </ref>

* ss-0 <ref group="ref"> See section IV in this page</ref>

* aa-2 <ref group="ref"> See page 234 in <ref group="Lit" name="aa" /></ref>

* bb-1 <ref group="ref"> See page 123 in <ref group="Lit" name="bb" /></ref>

;References:<references group="ref" />

;Literature:<references group="Lit" />

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stop----


The wikicode above should yield:


----
start----
The arguments are:

* aa-0 [ref 1]

* aa-1 [ref 2]

* bb-0 [Lit 2]

* ss-0 [ref 3]

* aa-2 [ref 4]

* bb-1 [ref 5]



References

 1. ^ See page iii in [Lit 1]

 2. ^ See page 123 in [Lit 1]

 3. ^ See section IV in this page

 4. ^ See page 234 in [Lit 1]

 5. ^ See page 123 in [Lit 2]



Literature:

 1. ^ book aa

 2. ^ book bb

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stop----


If, depending on the actual parsing order, the references [Lit 1] and [Lit 2] were reversed (both by numbering and print order) I would not mind.



Thank you for your consideration!