| type | classifies the addition, using any convenient typology. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Values: Any string of characters. |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| Example:
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| place | indicates where the addition is made. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Legal values: | | inline | addition is made in a space left in the witness by
an
earlier scribe. | | supralinear | addition is made above the line. | | infralinear | addition is made below the line. | | marginleft | addition is made in left margin. | | marginright | addition is made in right margin. | | margintop | addition is made in top margin. | | marginbot | addition is made in bottom margin. | | overleaf | addition is made on the other side of the leaf. |
|
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| Example:
Then they went back home.
<addSpan place='supralinear marginright overleaf' to=p23>
When they got there, ...
|
| Note | Long additions may frequently spill from one location to
another; in this case, more than one value may be given, as shown in
the example above.
|
| resp | (responsible) signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying
the hand of the addition. |
| Datatype: IDREF |
| 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 ). |
| Default: %INHERITED |
| Example:
|
| cert | (certainty) signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the
identification of the hand of the addition. |
| Datatype: CDATA |
| Default: #IMPLIED |
| Example:
|
| hand | signifies the hand of the agent which made the addition. |
| Datatype: IDREF |
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
header (see section 18.2.1 ). |
| Default: %INHERITED |
| Example:
|
| to | identifies the endpoint of the added passage, by giving the ID
of an <anchor> or other empty element placed there. |
| Datatype: IDREF |
| Values: any valid SGML identifier, used on a later element. |
| Default: #REQUIRED |
| Example:
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| Note | Both the beginning and the end of the added material must
be marked; the beginning by the <addSpan> element itself, the
end by the to attribute.
|