readings elements representing variant readings in text critical work.
Attributes:
wit (witnesses) contains a list of one or more sigla indicating the witnesses which attest to a given reading.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: A space-delimited series of sigla; each sigil should correspond to a witness or witness group and occur as the value of the sigil attribute on a <witness> element elsewhere in the document.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
  <rdg wit='El Hg'>Experience</rdg>
Note

If the apparatus contains readings only for a single witness, this attribute may be consistently omitted.

type classifies the reading according to some useful typology.
Datatype: CDATA
Legal values:
substantive the reading offers a substantive variant.
orthographic the reading differs only orthographically, not in substance, from other readings.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
cause classifies the reading as original or non-original, according to some typology of possible origins.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: any word or phrase describing the cause: e.g. ``homeoteleuton'', ``homeoarchy'', ``paleographic confusion'', ``haplography'', ``dittography'', ``false emendation''.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
varSeq (variant sequence) provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants on any one lemma.
Datatype: NUMBER
Values: a positive integer
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
Note

Different variant sequences could be coded with distinct number trails: 1-2-3 for one sequence, 5-6-7 for another. More complex variant sequences, with (for example) multiple branchings from single readings, may be expressed through the <join> element.

resp (responsibility) identifies the editor responsible for asserting a particular reading in the witness.
Datatype: CDATA
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:
Note

This attribute is only available within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses.

hand signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the witness.
Datatype: IDREF
Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 ).
Default: %INHERITED
Example:
Note

This attribute is only available within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses.

wit (witness) contains a list of one or more sigla of witnesses attesting a given reading.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: the list of sigla.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example:
Note

This attribute may occur both within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness and within an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses.

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 occur as witnesses to a reading.

Note

This element class defines attributes inherited by <rdg> , <lem> , and <rdg.grp> .

Tagsetadditional tag set for text criticism
Class
Filenameteitc2.ent
Parents[none]
Memberslem rdg rdgGrp restore
Declaration <!ENTITY % a.readings ' %a.global wit CDATA #IMPLIED type CDATA #IMPLIED cause CDATA #IMPLIED varSeq NUMBER #IMPLIED resp CDATA %INHERITED hand IDREF %INHERITED' >
See 19.1

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