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<certainty>

indicates the degree of certainty associated with some aspect of the text markup.

Module certaintyCECECE

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.scoping @target@match
att.typed @type@subtype
@typecharacterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology; sample categorization of annotations of uncertainty might use following values:
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Sample values
ignorance
incompleteness
credibility
imprecision
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>
@certsignifies the degree of certainty associated with the object pointed to by the certainty element.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.certainty
@locusindicates more exactly the aspect concerning which certainty is being expressed: specifically, whether the markup is correctly located, whether the correct element or attribute name has been used, or whether the content of the element or attribute is correct, etc.
Status
Required
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Legal values
name
uncertainty concerns whether the name of the element or attribute used is correctly applied.
start
uncertainty concerns whether the start of the element is correctly identified.
end
uncertainty concerns whether the end of the element is correctly identified.
location
uncertainty concerns both the start and the end of the element.
value
uncertainty concerns the content (for an element) or the value (for an attribute)
@assertedValueprovides an alternative value for the aspect of the markup in question—an alternative generic identifier, transcription, or attribute value, or the identifier of an anchor element (to indicate an alternative starting or ending location). If an @assertedValue is given, the confidence level specified by @degree applies to the alternative markup specified by @assertedValue; if none is given, it applies to the markup in the text.
Status
Recommended
Datatype
teidata.word
<certainty target="#ESX" locus="name" assertedValue="placeName" cert="low">
  <desc>It is unlikely, but possible, that this refers to the place
rather than the person.</desc>
</certainty>
@givenindicates one or more element(s) characterizing the conditions which are assumed in the assignment of a degree of confidence.
Status
Recommended
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.pointer separated by whitespace
@degreeindicates the degree of confidence assigned to the aspect of the markup named by the @locus attribute.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.probability

Classes and content

Member of
model.certLikemodel.global.meta
May contain

certainty

core

Contained by

analysis

certainty

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Example

(For discussion of this example, see section Contingent Conditions)

Ernest went to 
<anchor xml:id="A1"/>
 old
<persName xml:id="SYB">Saybrook</persName>
.
<certainty xml:id="c1" target="#SYB" locus="name" degree="0.6"/>
<certainty target="#SYB" locus="start" given="#c1" degree="0.9"/>
<certainty xml:id="C-c2" target="#SYB" locus="name" assertedValue="persName" degree="0.4"/>
<certainty target="#SYB" locus="start" given="#C-c2" degree="0.5"/>
<certainty target="#SYB" locus="start" assertedValue="#a1" given="#c1" degree="0.5"/>

Content model

<content>
      <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <classRef key="model.descLike"/>
        <classRef key="model.certLike"/>
      </alternate>
  </content>