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A method, system and computer program product for maintaining object referential integrity for abstract objects. In a method of the invention, the method can include extracting a reference to an abstract object hierarchy from an address disposed in markup, locating branches of nodes in the abstract object hierarchy which define a concrete object, and translating each located branch of nodes to an address for the concrete object. Notably, extracting a reference to an abstract object hierarchy from an address disposed in markup, can include extracting a reference to an abstract object hierarchy from a URL disposed in a Web page. Finally, the method can include changing a property of each node in the abstract object hierarchy that matches a specified class identifier.