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<witness>

<witness> contains either a description of a single witness referred to within the critical apparatus, or a list of witnesses which is to be referred to by a single sigil.
Attributes (In addition to global attributes)
sigil indicates the sigil for one witness or for one group of witnesses to which readings are assigned in a critical apparatus.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: the identifier to be used for this witness or witness group in the wit attribute of readings in the apparatus.
Default: #REQUIRED
Example: 






Note



In local encoding schemes, the value of the id
attribute can be used as the sigil, and the declared value of the
wit attribute may be changed to IDREF, so as to ensure that
only witnesses referred to in a <witness> element contained
within a <witList> may occur in the value of any wit
attribute on a reading element within an apparatus.








included
indicates which other witnesses are included in a witness group.




Datatype: CDATA






Values: a blank-delimited list of sigla.






Default: #IMPLIED






Example: 
<witness sigil="B">  </witness>
<witness sigil="k">  </witness>
<witness sigil="I">  </witness>
<witness sigil="C*" included="B k I"></witness>







Note



The included attribute applies only in the case
of witness groups; if no value is given,
the <witness> element is held to refer to a single witness rather
than a group.












Example








Note



The content of the <witness> element may give
bibliographic information about the witness or witness group, or it
may be empty.






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





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
witList 




Declaration

<!ELEMENT witness %om.RO; %paraContent;> 
<!ATTLIST witness  
      %a.global;
      sigil CDATA #REQUIRED
      included CDATA #IMPLIED>






See further
19.1 The Apparatus Entry, Readings, and Witnesses








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