<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.
Attributes:
sigil indicates the sigil for one witness or for one group of witnesses to which readings are assigned in a critical apparatus.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: the identifier to be used for this witness or witness group in the wit attribute of readings in the apparatus.
Default: #REQUIRED
Example:
Note

In local encoding schemes, the value of the id attribute can be used as the sigil, and the declared value of the wit attribute may be changed to IDREF, so as to ensure that only witnesses referred to in a <witness> element contained within a <witList> may occur in the value of any wit attribute on a reading element within an apparatus.

included indicates which other witnesses are included in a witness group.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: a blank-delimited list of sigla.
Default: ''
Example: 
  <witness sigil='B'>
  <witness sigil='k'>
  <witness sigil='I'>
  <witness sigil='C*' included='B k I'>
Note

The included attribute applies only in the case of witness groups; if no value is given, the <witness> element is held to refer to a single witness rather than a group.

Example
Note

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

Tagsetadditional tag set for text criticism
Class
Filenameteitc2
ParentswitList
Children#PCDATA abbr add address app att bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan figure foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi label lang link list listBibl m measure mentioned move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space stage supplied table tag tech term text time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val view w witDetail xptr xref
Declaration
<!ELEMENT witness       - O  (%paraContent)                     >
<!ATTLIST witness            %a.global
          sigil              CDATA               #REQUIRED
          included           CDATA               ''             >
See 19.1

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