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Subject: Re: org babel question: reference tables in remote file
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:45:53 +0200
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Hi Arun,

Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov> writes:

> thanks for the answer. It would be nice to be able to reference tables
> in other files easily though, so some form of <path>:<tablename> would
> be great for the remote call. Is there some special ref syntax that
> could be used here?

     remote(NAME-OR-ID,REF)

describes a reference to a table in a section, possibly in a different
file, and the ID property is probably more stable than a filename, so
I'd argue that what we have is enough.

-- 
 Bastien