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In a large scale store it is extremely hard to provide reasonable performance when an implementation must support references pointing to elements other than root elements.
Kumar, this seems to be a dup of http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4656 You can probably close this one since 4656 has been triaged already
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4656 ***