| wit |
(witnesses)
contains a list of one or more sigla indicating the witnesses
which attest to a given reading. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Values: A space-delimited series of sigla; each sigil should correspond
to a witness or witness group and occur as the value of the
sigil attribute on a <witness> element elsewhere in the
document. |
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Default: #IMPLIED |
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Example: <rdg wit="El Hg">Experience</rdg>
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| Note |
If the apparatus contains readings only for a single
witness, this attribute may be consistently omitted.
This attribute may occur both within an apparatus
gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual
witness and within an apparatus gathering readings from different
witnesses.
In local encoding schemes, the value of the wit
attribute can be enforced as IDREFS, such that only witnesses
referred to in a <witList> element may occur as witnesses to a
reading.
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| type |
classifies the reading according to some useful typology. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Sample values include:
| substantive |
the reading offers a substantive variant. |
| orthographic |
the reading differs only orthographically, not in substance,
from
other readings. |
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Default: #IMPLIED |
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Example:
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| cause |
classifies the reading as original or non-original, according to
some typology of possible origins. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Values: any word or phrase describing the cause: e.g.
‘homeoteleuton’,
‘homeoarchy’,
‘paleographic confusion’,
‘haplography’,
‘dittography’,
‘false emendation’. |
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Default: #IMPLIED |
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Example:
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| varSeq |
(variant sequence)
provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a
sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants
on any one lemma. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Values: a positive integer |
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Default: #IMPLIED |
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Example:
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| Note |
Different variant sequences could be coded with distinct
number trails: 1-2-3 for one sequence, 5-6-7 for another. More
complex variant sequences, with (for example) multiple branchings
from single readings, may be expressed through the <join>
element.
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| resp |
(responsibility)
identifies the editor responsible for asserting a particular
reading in the witness. |
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Datatype: CDATA |
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Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document
header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some
aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing, or encoding
(see chapter 17 Certainty and Responsibility). |
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Default: %INHERITED; |
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Example:
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| Note |
This attribute is only available within an apparatus
gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual
witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from
different witnesses.
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| hand |
signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the
witness. |
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Datatype: IDREF |
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Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
header (see section 18.2.1 Document Hands). |
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Default: %INHERITED; |
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Example:
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| Note |
This attribute is only available within an apparatus
gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual
witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from
different witnesses.
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