`<addSpan>` | (added span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text added by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector (see also `<add>` ).

Attributes:

`type` | classifies the addition, using any convenient typology.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: Any string of characters.
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`place` | indicates where the addition is made.
| Datatype: CDATA

Legal values:

`inline` | addition is made in a space left in the witness by an earlier scribe.
`supralinear` | addition is made above the line.
`infralinear` | addition is made below the line.
`marginleft` | addition is made in left margin.
`marginright` | addition is made in right margin.
`margintop` | addition is made in top margin.
`marginbot` | addition is made in bottom margin.
`overleaf` | addition is made on the other side of the leaf.

| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

    Then they went back home.
    <addSpan place='supralinear marginright overleaf' to=p23>
    When they got there, ...

Note | Long additions may frequently spill from one location to another; in this case, more than one value may be given, as shown in the example above.

`resp` | (responsible) signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying the hand of the addition.
| Datatype: IDREF
| 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:

`cert` | (certainty) signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the identification of the hand of the addition.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example:

`hand` | signifies the hand of the agent which made the addition.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 ).
| Default: %INHERITED

Example:

`to` | identifies the endpoint of the added passage, by giving the ID of an `<anchor>` or other empty element placed there.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: any valid SGML identifier, used on a later element.
| Default: #REQUIRED

Example:

Note | Both the beginning and the end of the added material must be marked; the beginning by the `<addSpan>` element itself, the end by the `to` attribute.

Example

Note

(optional)

Tagsetadditional tag set for text criticism
ClasseditIncl [and indirectly also:] globincl
Filename`teitran2`
Content: Empty.
Parents[none]
Children[none]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT addSpan       - O  EMPTY                              >
    <!ATTLIST addSpan            %a.global
              type               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              place              CDATA               #IMPLIED
              resp               IDREF               %INHERITED

              cert               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              hand               IDREF               %INHERITED

              to                 IDREF               #REQUIRED      >

See 18.1.4

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