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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.

Module textcritTCAPLL

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.sortable @sortKey

Classes and content

May contain

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

msdescription

namesdates

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

textcrit

Note

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

Example

<listWit>
  <witness xml:id="EL">Ellesmere, Huntingdon Library 26.C.9</witness>
  <witness xml:id="HG">Hengwrt, National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Peniarth 392D</witness>
  <witness xml:id="RA2">Bodleian Library Rawlinson Poetic 149
(see further<ptr target="http://www.examples.com/MSdescs#MSRP149"/>)</witness>
</listWit>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      
      <textNode/>
      <classRef key="model.limitedPhrase"/>
      <classRef key="model.inter"/>
      <elementRef key="note"/>
      <elementRef key="object"/>
   </alternate>
  </content>