TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<witDetail>` | gives further information about a particular witness, or witnesses, to a particular reading.
Attributes: |
`target` | indicates the identifier for the reading, or readings, to which the witness detail refers.
| Datatype: IDREFS
| Values: the identifier of the reading or readings.
| Default: #REQUIRED
| Example:
`resp` | (responsibility) identifies the individual responsible for identifying the witness
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters, typically the initials of the individual involved, or a role identifier like ``editor'' if not known by name.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`wit` | indicates the sigil or sigla for the witnesses to which the detail refers.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: the identifier of the sigil or sigla.
| Default: #REQUIRED
| Example:
Note | 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 be the subject of a `<witDetail>` .
`type` | describes the type of information given about the witness.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Values can be taken from any convenient typology of annotation suitable to the work in hand; e.g. letter form, ornament, ...
| Default: #IMPLIED
`place` | indicates where the note appears in the source text.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: As for the `<note>` element.
| Default: 'apparatus'
| Example:
Note | For pages with multiple apparatus, values such as app1 and app2 can be used. The `place` attribute can be used to indicate to text formatting software where a note should be printed. If the locations indicated do not agree with those in the copy text, that fact should be indicated in the TEI header.

Example

Note

The `<witDetail>` element should be regarded as a specialized type of `<note>` element; it is synonymous with `<note type='witness detail'>` . It differs from the general purpose `<note>` in the omission of some attributes seldom applicable to notes within critical apparatus, and in the provision of the `wit` attribute, which permits an application to extract all annotation concerning a particular witness or witnesses from the apparatus.

Tagset additional tag set for text criticism
Class notes [and indirectly also:] common, inter
Filename `teitc2`
Content:
Parents ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def desc descrip div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph epigraph epilogue equiv etym fDescr figDesc foreign form fsDescr gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region remarks rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
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 witDetail     - O  (%paraContent)                     >
    <!ATTLIST witDetail          %a.global
              target             IDREFS              #REQUIRED
              resp               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              wit                CDATA               #REQUIRED
              type               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              place              CDATA               'apparatus'    >

See 19.1

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