diff --git a/.docs/categories.json b/.docs/categories.json
index d5eba63906..4d8cebe92d 100644
--- a/.docs/categories.json
+++ b/.docs/categories.json
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 					"ve.dm.ModelRegistry",
 					"ve.dm.Converter",
 					"ve.dm.DataString",
-					"ve.dm.DocumentSlice",
 					"ve.dm.DocumentSynchronizer",
 					"ve.dm.IndexValueStore",
 					"ve.dm.NodeFactory",
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@
 			},
 			{
 				"name": "Linear data",
-				"classes": ["ve.dm.*LinearData"]
+				"classes": ["ve.dm.*LinearData*"]
 			},
 			{
 				"name": "Models",
diff --git a/VisualEditor.php b/VisualEditor.php
index 25c1d28073..1829e0dcb7 100644
--- a/VisualEditor.php
+++ b/VisualEditor.php
@@ -294,11 +294,11 @@ $wgResourceModules += array(
 			've/dm/ve.dm.DataString.js',
 			've/dm/ve.dm.Document.js',
 			've/dm/ve.dm.LinearData.js',
-			've/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js',
 			've/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSynchronizer.js',
 			've/dm/ve.dm.IndexValueStore.js',
 			've/dm/ve.dm.Converter.js',
 
+			've/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js',
 			've/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js',
 			've/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.MetaLinearData.js',
 
diff --git a/demos/ve/index.php b/demos/ve/index.php
index eef13e0d35..c3e5f29689 100644
--- a/demos/ve/index.php
+++ b/demos/ve/index.php
@@ -147,10 +147,10 @@ $html = file_get_contents( $page );
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DataString.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.LinearData.js"></script>
-		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSynchronizer.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.IndexValueStore.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Converter.js"></script>
+		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.MetaLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../modules/ve/dm/nodes/ve.dm.GeneratedContentNode.js"></script>
diff --git a/modules/ve/ce/ve.ce.Surface.js b/modules/ve/ce/ve.ce.Surface.js
index c3d4d683f1..db9867a721 100644
--- a/modules/ve/ce/ve.ce.Surface.js
+++ b/modules/ve/ce/ve.ce.Surface.js
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ ve.ce.Surface.prototype.onCopy = function ( e ) {
 		clipboardIndex, clipboardItem,
 		scrollTop,
 		view = this,
-		slice = this.documentView.model.getSlice( this.model.getSelection() ),
+		slice = this.documentView.model.getSlicedLinearData( this.model.getSelection() ),
 		clipboardData = e.originalEvent.clipboardData,
 		$window = $( ve.Element.getWindow( this.$$.context ) );
 
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ ve.ce.Surface.prototype.onCopy = function ( e ) {
 
 	ve.dm.converter.store = this.documentView.model.getStore();
 	ve.dm.converter.internalList = this.documentView.model.getInternalList();
-	ve.dm.converter.getDomSubtreeFromData( slice.getBalancedData(), this.$pasteTarget[0] );
+	ve.dm.converter.getDomSubtreeFromData( slice.getData(), this.$pasteTarget[0] );
 
 	clipboardItem = { 'data': slice, 'hash': null };
 	clipboardIndex = this.clipboard.push( clipboardItem ) - 1;
@@ -813,7 +813,8 @@ ve.ce.Surface.prototype.afterPaste = function () {
 		if ( !beforePasteData.plain ) {
 			beforePasteData.plain = this.$pasteTarget.text();
 		}
-		slice = new ve.dm.DocumentSlice(
+		slice = new ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice(
+			new ve.dm.IndexValueStore(),
 			ve.splitClusters(
 				// TODO: handle plain text line breaks better
 				beforePasteData.plain.replace( /\n+/gm, ' ' )
@@ -825,7 +826,7 @@ ve.ce.Surface.prototype.afterPaste = function () {
 		// Try to paste in the orignal data
 		// Take a copy to prevent the data being annotated a second time in the catch block
 		// and to prevent actions in the data model affecting view.clipboard
-		pasteData = ve.copy( slice.getData() );
+		pasteData = ve.copy( slice.getOriginalData() );
 
 		// Annotate
 		ve.dm.Document.addAnnotationsToData( pasteData, this.model.getInsertionAnnotations() );
@@ -839,7 +840,7 @@ ve.ce.Surface.prototype.afterPaste = function () {
 	} catch ( err ) {
 		// If that fails, balance the data before pasting
 		// Take a copy to prevent actions in the data model affecting view.clipboard
-		pasteData = ve.copy( slice.getBalancedData() );
+		pasteData = ve.copy( slice.getData() );
 
 		// Annotate
 		ve.dm.Document.addAnnotationsToData( pasteData, this.model.getInsertionAnnotations() );
diff --git a/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js b/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js
index 1944af343a..96df182e4c 100644
--- a/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js
+++ b/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*!
- * VisualEditor ElementLinearData class.
+ * VisualEditor ElementLinearData classes.
  *
  * Class containing element linear data and an index-value store.
  *
@@ -778,3 +778,27 @@ ve.dm.ElementLinearData.prototype.remapInteralListIndexes = function ( mapping )
 		}
 	}
 };
+
+/**
+ * Sliced element linear data storage
+ *
+ * @class
+ * @extends ve.dm.ElementLinearData
+ * @mixins ve.dm.SlicedLinearData
+ * @constructor
+ * @param {ve.dm.IndexValueStore} store Index-value store
+ * @param {Array} [data] Linear data
+ * @param {ve.Range} [range] Original context within data
+ */
+ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice = function VeDmElementLinearDataSlice( store, data, range ) {
+	ve.dm.ElementLinearData.call( this, store, data );
+
+	// Mixins
+	ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.call( this, range );
+};
+
+/* Inheritance */
+
+ve.inheritClass( ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice, ve.dm.ElementLinearData );
+
+ve.mixinClass( ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice, ve.dm.SlicedLinearData );
diff --git a/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js b/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19c9a2be05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*!
+ * VisualEditor DataModel SlicedLinearData class.
+ *
+ * @copyright 2011-2013 VisualEditor Team and others; see AUTHORS.txt
+ * @license The MIT License (MIT); see LICENSE.txt
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Sliced linear data storage.
+ *
+ * @abstract
+ * @constructor
+ * @param {ve.Range} [range] Original context within data
+ */
+ve.dm.SlicedLinearData = function VeDmSlicedLinearData( range ) {
+	// Clone data
+	this.data = ve.copy( this.data );
+
+	// Properties
+	this.range = range || new ve.Range( 0, this.data.length );
+};
+
+/* Methods */
+
+/**
+ * Get the range representing the original context within the data
+ *
+ * @returns {ve.Range} Original context within data
+ */
+ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.prototype.getRange = function () {
+	return this.range;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Get the original data excluding any balancing data that was added.
+ *
+ * @method
+ * @param {number} [offset] Offset to get data from
+ * @returns {Object|Array} Data from index, or all data (by reference)
+ */
+ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.prototype.getOriginalData = function ( offset ) {
+	return offset === undefined ? this.data.slice( this.range.start, this.range.end ) : this.data[this.range.start + offset];
+};
+
+/**
+ * Run all elements in this document slice through getClonedElement(). This should be done if
+ * you intend to insert the sliced data back into the document as a copy of the original data
+ * (e.g. for copy and paste).
+ */
+ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.prototype.cloneElements = function () {
+	var i, len, node;
+	for ( i = 0, len = this.getLength(); i < len; i++ ) {
+		if ( this.isOpenElementData( i ) ) {
+			node = ve.dm.nodeFactory.create( this.getType( i ), [], this.getData( i ) );
+			this.data[i] = node.getClonedElement();
+		}
+	}
+};
diff --git a/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js b/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js
index e5b372462a..874fd79d83 100644
--- a/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js
+++ b/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js
@@ -824,24 +824,24 @@ ve.dm.Document.prototype.fixupInsertion = function ( data, offset ) {
 /**
  * Get the document data for a range.
  *
- * Data will be fixed up so that unopened closings and unclosed openings in the document data slice
- * are balanced.
+ * Data will be fixed up so that unopened closings and unclosed openings in the
+ * linear data slice are balanced.
  *
  * @param {ve.Range} range Range to get contents of
- * @returns {ve.dm.DocumentSlice} Balanced slice of linear model data
+ * @returns {ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice} Balanced slice of linear model data
  */
-ve.dm.Document.prototype.getSlice = function ( range ) {
+ve.dm.Document.prototype.getSlicedLinearData = function ( range ) {
 	var first, last, firstNode, lastNode,
 		node = this.getNodeFromOffset( range.start ),
 		selection = this.selectNodes( range, 'siblings' ),
 		addOpenings = [],
 		addClosings = [];
 	if ( selection.length === 0 ) {
-		return new ve.dm.DocumentSlice( [] );
+		return new ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice( this.getStore(), [] );
 	}
 	if ( selection.length === 1 && selection[0].range && selection[0].range.equalsSelection( range ) ) {
 		// Nothing to fix up
-		return new ve.dm.DocumentSlice( this.data.slice( range.start, range.end ) );
+		return new ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice( this.getStore(), this.data.slice( range.start, range.end ) );
 	}
 
 	first = selection[0];
@@ -882,7 +882,8 @@ ve.dm.Document.prototype.getSlice = function ( range ) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	return new ve.dm.DocumentSlice(
+	return new ve.dm.ElementLinearDataSlice(
+		this.getStore(),
 		addOpenings.reverse()
 			.concat( this.data.slice( range.start, range.end ) )
 			.concat( addClosings ),
diff --git a/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js b/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d6d1a1714..0000000000
--- a/modules/ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-/*!
- * VisualEditor DataModel DocumentSlice class.
- *
- * @copyright 2011-2013 VisualEditor Team and others; see AUTHORS.txt
- * @license The MIT License (MIT); see LICENSE.txt
- */
-
-/**
- * DataModel document slice.
- *
- * @constructor
- * @param {Array} data Balanced sliced data (will be deep copied internally)
- * @param {ve.Range} [range] Original context within data
- */
-ve.dm.DocumentSlice = function VeDmDocumentSlice( data, range ) {
-	// Properties
-	this.data = ve.copy( data );
-	this.range = range || new ve.Range( 0, data.length );
-};
-
-/* Methods */
-
-/**
- * Get a deep copy of the sliced data.
- *
- * @method
- * @returns {Array} Document data
- */
-ve.dm.DocumentSlice.prototype.getData = function () {
-	return this.data.slice( this.range.start, this.range.end );
-};
-
-/**
- * Get a balanced version of the sliced data.
- *
- * @method
- * @returns {Array} Document data
- */
-ve.dm.DocumentSlice.prototype.getBalancedData = function () {
-	return this.data.slice( 0 );
-};
-
-/**
- * Run all elements in this document slice through getClonedElement(). This should be done if
- * you intend to insert the sliced data back into the document as a copy of the original data
- * (e.g. for copy and paste).
- */
-ve.dm.DocumentSlice.prototype.cloneElements = function () {
-	var i, len, node;
-	for ( i = 0, len = this.data.length; i < len; i++ ) {
-		if ( this.data[i].type && this.data[i].type.charAt( 0 ) !== '/' ) {
-			node = ve.dm.nodeFactory.create( this.data[i].type, [], this.data[i] );
-			this.data[i] = node.getClonedElement();
-		}
-	}
-};
diff --git a/modules/ve/test/dm/ve.dm.Document.test.js b/modules/ve/test/dm/ve.dm.Document.test.js
index eef892050b..7335e09779 100644
--- a/modules/ve/test/dm/ve.dm.Document.test.js
+++ b/modules/ve/test/dm/ve.dm.Document.test.js
@@ -271,19 +271,21 @@ QUnit.test( 'selectNodes', function ( assert ) {
 } );
 
 QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
-	var i, data, doc = ve.dm.example.createExampleDocument(),
+	var i, expectedData, doc = ve.dm.example.createExampleDocument(),
 		cases = [
 		{
 			'msg': 'empty range',
 			'range': new ve.Range( 2, 2 ),
-			'expected': []
+			'expected': [],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 0 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range with one character',
 			'range': new ve.Range( 2, 3 ),
 			'expected': [
 				['b', [ ve.dm.example.bold ]]
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 0, 1 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range with two characters',
@@ -291,7 +293,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 			'expected': [
 				['b', [ ve.dm.example.bold ]],
 				['c', [ ve.dm.example.italic ]]
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 0, 2 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range with two characters and a header closing',
@@ -301,7 +304,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				['b', [ ve.dm.example.bold ]],
 				['c', [ ve.dm.example.italic ]],
 				{ 'type': '/heading' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 1, 4 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range with one character, a header closing and a table opening',
@@ -312,7 +316,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				{ 'type': '/heading' },
 				{ 'type': 'table' },
 				{ 'type': '/table' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 1, 4 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range from a paragraph into a list',
@@ -328,7 +333,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				{ 'type': '/paragraph' },
 				{ 'type': '/listItem' },
 				{ 'type': '/list' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 1, 7 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range from a paragraph inside a nested list into the next list',
@@ -347,7 +353,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				{ 'type': '/list' },
 				{ 'type': 'list', 'attributes': { 'style': 'number' } },
 				{ 'type': '/list' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 5, 12 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range from a paragraph inside a nested list out of both lists',
@@ -364,7 +371,8 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				{ 'type': '/list' },
 				{ 'type': '/listItem' },
 				{ 'type': '/list' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 5, 11 )
 		},
 		{
 			'msg': 'range from a paragraph inside a nested list out of the outer listItem',
@@ -379,16 +387,22 @@ QUnit.test( 'getSlice', function ( assert ) {
 				{ 'type': '/listItem' },
 				{ 'type': '/list' },
 				{ 'type': '/listItem' }
-			]
+			],
+			'expectedRange': new ve.Range( 4, 9 )
 		}
 	];
-	QUnit.expect( cases.length );
+	QUnit.expect( 2 * cases.length );
 	for ( i = 0; i < cases.length; i++ ) {
-		data = ve.dm.example.preprocessAnnotations( cases[i].expected.slice(), doc.getStore() );
+		expectedData = ve.dm.example.preprocessAnnotations( cases[i].expected.slice(), doc.getStore() ).getData();
 		assert.deepEqual(
-			doc.getSlice( cases[i].range ).getBalancedData(),
-			data.getData(),
-			cases[i].msg
+			doc.getSlicedLinearData( cases[i].range ).getData(),
+			expectedData,
+			cases[i].msg + ': balanced data'
+		);
+		assert.deepEqual(
+			doc.getSlicedLinearData( cases[i].range ).getRange(),
+			cases[i].expectedRange,
+			cases[i].msg + ': range'
 		);
 	}
 } );
diff --git a/modules/ve/test/index.php b/modules/ve/test/index.php
index d188d32e77..e3f1636c94 100644
--- a/modules/ve/test/index.php
+++ b/modules/ve/test/index.php
@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.DataString.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.Document.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.LinearData.js"></script>
-		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSlice.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.DocumentSynchronizer.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.IndexValueStore.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/ve.dm.Converter.js"></script>
+		<script src="../../ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.SlicedLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.ElementLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/lineardata/ve.dm.MetaLinearData.js"></script>
 		<script src="../../ve/dm/nodes/ve.dm.GeneratedContentNode.js"></script>