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<witDetail>

<witDetail> gives further information about a particular witness, or witnesses, to a particular reading.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from notes)
target indicates the identifier for the reading, or readings, to which the witness detail refers.
Datatype: IDREFS
Values: the identifier of the reading or readings.
Default: #REQUIRED
Example: 







resp

  (responsibility)
identifies the individual responsible for  identifying the
witness




Datatype: CDATA






Values: any string of characters, typically the initials of the
individual involved, or a role identifier like ‘editor’ if not
known by name.






Default: #IMPLIED






Example: 








wit
indicates the sigil or sigla for the witnesses to which the
detail refers.




Datatype: CDATA






Values: the identifier of the sigil or sigla.






Default: #REQUIRED






Example: 






Note



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 be the
subject of a <witDetail>.







type
describes the type of information given about the witness.




Datatype: CDATA






Values: Values can be taken from any convenient typology of annotation
suitable to the work in hand;  e.g. letter form, ornament, ...






Default: #IMPLIED





place
indicates where the note appears in the source text.




Datatype: CDATA






Values: As for the <note> element.






Default: apparatus






Example: 






Note



For pages with multiple apparatus, values such as
app1 and app2 can be used.



The place attribute can be used to indicate to text
formatting software where a note should be printed.  If the locations
indicated do not agree with those in the copy text, that fact should be
indicated in the TEI header.












Example








Note



The <witDetail> element should be regarded as a
specialized type of <note> element; it is synonymous with
<note type='witness detail'>.  It differs from the general
purpose <note> in the omission of some attributes seldom applicable to
notes within critical apparatus, and in the provision of the
wit attribute, which
permits an application to extract all
annotation concerning a particular witness or witnesses from the
apparatus.






Module
Declared in file teitc2; Additional tag set for Textual Criticism: enabled by TEI.textcrit





Class
notes





May contain
#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib figure foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp label lang lb link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space span spanGrp stage supplied table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear view w witDetail xptr xref 




May occur within
ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def descrip dictScrap div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph entryFree epigraph epilogue etym figDesc foreign form gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref 




Declaration

<!ELEMENT witDetail %om.RO; %paraContent;> 
<!ATTLIST witDetail  
      %a.global;
      target IDREFS #REQUIRED
      resp CDATA #IMPLIED
      wit CDATA #REQUIRED
      type CDATA #IMPLIED
      place CDATA "apparatus">






See further
19.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses








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