semantic markup for anaphora?

[yecril71pl]

Dear wizards of HTML,
I am going out of my way to mark up a (pure) XHTML document so that I can run queries against it. What I have is, among others, constructs like

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<b class="customer"
>community of <span class="location" >Vielikiev</span ></b >

And it can give me an answer for the query

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Select all projects where customer location is ?

containing the result 'Community of Vielikiev'.
So far so good. Here is the problematic plain text:

…similar projects for communities of Tluktj, Prityc and Viaezovna.

Here is where my little microformat fails. The requirements are:

1. The plain text must not be changed.
2. The query must return ‘Community of Prityc’ and not ‘Prityc’ alone.
3. The markup must not contain invisible text.

I have come up with the following workaround:

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<b class="customer group" >communities of</b >
<b class="customer.location" >Tluktj</b >,
<b class="customer.location" >Prityc</b >
and <b class="customer.location" >Vioezovna</b >

Which is sort of workable (requires modifications to the Select algorithm).
Note that I cannot wrap the whole list with B for fear that the text list could require UL.
Now you can tell me how stupid I am
I also have a problem with anchors in this text; I guess it is not limited to HTML but a general hypertext problem. Namely, if I put an anchor around Viaezovna only, the anchor text will imply that the referenced document contains information about Vioezovna — but my intention is to provide information about the cooperation with the community of Vioezovna and not about Vioezovna itself. I have no idea how to address this.

[zcorpan]

Does microdata help solve this problem?

[yecril71pl]

I guess I could explain the link in the title of the anchor:

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<a title="Community of Vioezovna" >Vioezovna</a >

I do not know how I could use microdata here; AFAIK, microdata are not distributive.