Re: [O] org-html: subtree specific footnote references

[Jambunathan K]

>> running org-export-as-html on a subtree is currently problematic if
>> the result is to be merged into a document which contains html-ized
>> versions of other subtrees: the footnote references and definitions
>> get clobbered.

Do the subtrees come from the same org file?

Won't it look odd and confusing to a reader, when there are two
different footnote definitions with the same number.  Confusion is like
to be pronounced, if the reader chooses to also print out the document
as a pdf or into paper.
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