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Nesting
Nesting describes how sub-elements may be contained within larger elements resulting in multilevel metadata. For example, Dublin Core metadata may be nested within METS. The multi-level capabilities of XML is used to great advantage in EAD to represent the multi-level nature of archival arrangement and description:
<co1 level="fonds>
<co2
level="series">
<co3
level="file">
</co3>
</co2>
</co1>
and so on.
