TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<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.

Tagset additional tag set for text criticism
Class
Filename `teitc2`
Parents witList
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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