<variantEncoding> declares the method used to encode text-critical variants.
Attributes:
method indicates which method is used to encode the apparatus of variants.
Datatype: (location-referenced | double-end-point | parallel-segmentation)
Legal values:
location-referenced apparatus uses line numbers or other canonical reference scheme referenced in a base text.
double-end-point apparatus indicates the precise locations of the beginning and ending of each lemma relative to a base text.
parallel-segmentation alternate readings of a passage are given in parallel in the text; no notion of a base text is necessary.
Default: #REQUIRED
Example:
Note

The value ``parallel-segmentation'' requires in-line encoding of the apparatus.

location indicates whether the apparatus appears within the running text or external to it.
Datatype: (internal | external)
Legal values:
internal apparatus appears within the running text.
external apparatus appears outside the base text.
Default: #REQUIRED
Example:
Note

The value ``external'' is inconsistent with the parallel-segmentation method of apparatus markup.

Example 
 <variantEncoding method='location-referenced'
                   location='external'>
Tagsetbase tag set for TEI headers
Class
Filenameteihdr2
Content: Empty.
ParentsencodingDesc
Children[none]
Declaration
<!ELEMENT variantEncoding 
                        - O  EMPTY                              >
<!ATTLIST variantEncoding    %a.global
          method             (location-referenced | 
                             double-end-point | 
                             parallel-segmentation) 
                                                 #REQUIRED
          location           (internal | external) 
                                                 #REQUIRED      >
See 19.1.1

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